yushire said:
BengaBenga said:
No public owned company can afford to "ditch" the Wii. It's that simple. Sure Epic can do what they want and their core business is pure harcore anyway, but besides them and maybe id-software every other company has to bring quality titles to the Wii or get toasted by the shareholders.
Results have been very bad for software companies lately. PS360 games require enormous investments and their userbase isn't growing very hard.
Wii on the other hand will be around 50 (!) million units sold next april.
Investors know this (hell, I'm sure big investors check VGChartz) and will ask the board why on earth there are no quality titles for the biggest userbase.
Ubisoft is a bad example because they've delivered 2 RRR and Red Steel. You wonder why Red Steel 2 takes so long? Because they didn't expect the Wii to win and now it does they want to make it a quality title. Same with Rygar.
Konami semi-announced Castlevania for Wii. I know it's not MGS but certainly a major franchise. PES already made it to Wii and is selling well.
Capcom: Monster Hunter 3; Tecmo: Fatal Frame and we'll see much more.
Interesting rumours are going on inside SquareEnix at the moment. I'll be amazed if we don't hear anything of them soon. |
I think theres wrong with your posts there, 1) When did Ubisoft announced Red Steel 2 coming for the Wii? And if it announced, where are the pics? The teaser? Do you mean that the conduit was the first to show gameplay footage than Red Steel 2?
It's clear that the game is coming. Matt Cassamassina said it's coming. Ubisoft said that a different team is handeling the game now (read: better team). So I'm not wrong, Red Steel 2 is in the making (as any idiot can predict since the original sold over a million).
I don't have a clue what you mean with that "the Conduit" sentence. 2) Since when did Konami "even" semi-announced castlevania for the Wii? Simply because theres a Wii menu on DS castlevania does mean that there'll be a castlevania for the Wii. No sure, it makes much more sense that there is a Wii menu because there won't be a wii game. It also makes sense that Konami doesn't deny it is coming, but rather says they made a mistake in showing that pic. |
Besides that it's quite telling that you won't touch the aruments I made regarding the shareholders, because you know it makes a lot of sense.
Regarding Suikoden: Of course it's coming to Wii. The series sells more than half of its total in Japan. The PS3 is close to irrelevant there. Suikoden is not Final Fantasy that can make it on it's massive fanbase.
Anyone that says PES08 sold bad on Wii is hilarious. It sold 500.000 in 3 months, while the other versions (including PS2, which is what a lot of people have) arrived in October. The football season was almost over when it launched, so essentially the game was dated when it arrived. And it was the first PES ever on a Nintendo platform.
