WINtendo on 18 April 2008
| ookaze said: You can feel the fear in this very thread, fear from anti-Wii fanboys that is. It's felt through nonsense and contradiction from the haters. I dislike FPS, and if one based on this engine is released, I will buy it, to support it, so that perhaps it becomes a success. What's important here is not the game, it's the engine, and that's why you smell fear from the haters. You can feel what they think : "This game MUST NOT get ever released and if by horror it was, it MUST NOT sell well". All the crappy 3rd parties are surely starting sweating thinking the same thing. That's because this game's engine has the potential to put them all to shame, and to show all their games were utter crap that didn't deserve even half the price people paid for them. If this engine gets high exposure, all the crappy 3rd parties' games are then bound to fail horribly in sales and in the mind of the Wii core gamers. It could especially destroy the low (if there's any left) faith in Ubisoft (that said they would make games better than Nintendo quality-wise) and EA (who said they would get back to being the first publishers on Wii), coupled with their sales. I needn't even talk about the Wii haters that would be shut off for good, once a game proves to them that the Wii is more capable than any last gen machine (it boggles the mind, but most haters actually don't even believe this). Also, a game like that getting large exposure would raise the bar to a level that seems impossible to attain currently by most 3rd parties. They would be forced to license such an engine to even go on making games on the Wii. So this game's engine is very important for Nintendo IMHO. That's one of the rare western studios that I think Nintendo should make 2nd party. Of course, if they publish the game and it's a success, you'll see yet another "only Nintendo sells on Nintendo platform". BTW, this engine shows how condescending and utter crap most of the 3rd parties that say the above sentence are. If anything, I'm glad to see that core gamers don't put up with their crappy games. It was too early before to attack the core market. I think it's still a bit early. I also thought Nintendo waited for Factor 5 to make a good engine for these kind of games on the Wii. Looks like these devs were faster. More power to them, and IMHO they fit perfectly in Nintendo's strategy. There will be a wait and see period though, while everyone gauge the other parties to see what is the next move. IMO someone will move, and the last would be Nintendo. That would be the most logical step for me. We'll see. |
I couldn't have put it better myself
