Dispelling the myth: The Wii market is (NOT) bigger than the HD twin market

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oniyide said:

superchunk said:
Who ever argued the HD twins combined were a smaller market than Wii?

It should never of being a competition between them. COD proves the games (mostly all) could of been down-ported and still provided a great game. Devs and Publishers simply didn't think they'd have good returns on that investment of a down-ported engine. Again, I think CODs 1m+ with each iteration on Wii proves that idea wrong too.

I would never of bought a PS3 had they down-ported AC, Batman, RE5 and a few other 3rd party games.

those games you listed cant be downported, so lets be real.

 

OT fact is those PS360 players simply buy more games, than your person who just wants to dance and exercise. Thats just common sense. You can throw the COD crowd in their as well, most of those players are fine just playing COD. I know some people like that myself

You're kidding, right? They down-ported Dead Rising and it was about 90% of the way to the 360 version-hell, it was probably even more fun because it didn't rely as much on being a tech demo as it was on 360.

The point being that, as is almost always the case, all devs do with more power is up the graphic detail and then proceed to give us the same exact games as last gen. But prettier. Yay. This means that down-porting is a joke because all you really need to do is pare back the visuals and, bam, same game on a much less powerful paltform. Really, when you think about it, it's actually pretty pathetic (on the part of game devs, who whine about wanting more power but really only want it to make the same games we've been playing for nigh-on a decade, but with prettier pictures).