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oniyide on 08 January 2013
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Aielyn said:
oniyide said:
Thats just it though, for the longest time Treyarch WAS the secondary studio. Thats why the HAD to port the games to Wii, cause Acti didnt want to wast the time of their Golden boys (IW) Lets not act that Treyarch is doing anything out of the goodness of their hearts its a business, when Acti tells them jump they say how high. They didnt have anywhere near the prestige and popularity of IW. COD3 was horrid, WaW was better still no where near as popular as 4, they didnt break big till Black Ops, so they made two popular games versus IW's four. NOW they are big boys, but i still think they are being told to make a wii game. I read an article stating that they really didnt put much time in the Wii version and LOL at it being just as good. DLC alone makes this not true.

They were the secondary studio with regards to what? The only time that they acted as a secondary studio was when they ported IW's MW games to the Wii. In all other cases, they made their own games (since they started working on CoD, that is - I make no claims regarding the situation prior to 2005). And it's worth noting that Treyarch's Wii development group grew over time - as I understand it, with CoD 3, they had something like two guys working on it.

Are you suggesting that Activision didn't want to tell Infinity Ward to make Wii versions of their games, but were fine with telling Treyarch that they had to? It just doesn't make sense. Note that I'm not talking about the Modern Warfare ports, I'm talking about the original versions.

Also note that I said nothing about "goodness of their hearts" - when I said "care", I meant it in the sense of "considered to be relevant", not "were emotionally attached". As in, I cared about who was elected president of the US, despite being an Australian. It wasn't an emotional concern, it was practical. Treyarch clearly considered the Wii a relevant console for which development would result in profit, and the level of profit was clearly enough to convince them to continue to do so.

And do you really believe that Activision instructed Treyarch to make CoD games for the Wii? If it were true, Activision would also have advertised the Wii versions, they would have at least mentioned the Wii versions in their PR releases. The lack of such attention from Activision strongly implies that Treyarch was the origin of the decision to support the Wii.

im not suggesting anything, im telling you thats what happened. Its well known that IW didnt care about the Wii, Activision could have made them do it, but seeing how IW was THERE dev studio they had more leeway, ALOT more leeway than Treyarch.