Ok @OP
I would slap you but I can't either way stop the FUD, Wii's intention isn't to do away with your big budget game, thats the market doing away with it, people around the world have decided the Wii's budgeted (Nintendos) games are just what they wanted, they offer $250(+$50) of VALUE! Note on the value part, because it means that the market has decided it's value is $250. Sure Nintendo set the price at $250 but if people didn't want to buy it for that, they would have to drop the price, like the PS360. The issue with the idea of a price drop is that your product is niche, the acceptance zone is at a much lower price, or might not exist at all.
Your big budget games are last gen, this is true; however that's where they are evolving from, the Wii (Nintendo) created a new theme and that is the current gen of video games it is the ruling motive at the moment in video games as will be proven when the Wii hits 50% market share which could happen as soon as August if Wiifit and Mario Kart didn't have an affect on Wii sales and if this was just Supply catching up to Demand. But last gen games aren't going away, it's probably going to seem that way for a little while, but if you consider them to be the evolution of video games as they are in a sense then you can rest assured that they will be there on Wii2 in HD looking like way better than on the PS3, and with a smaller budget, as by then we will have some mirroring tool to cut down art cost and programming cost for all the additional pixles and maping.
Long story short, your Gears of War and stuff, wont be going anywhere, the reason for this is 2 things, one should the Ps360 die out by 2010/2011then the userbases from that side should pretty much have some answer to their Space Marine needs on the Wii.
(I've been doing some reading on Sony, and they seem to be in a lot worse shape than I thought, I'm figuring a merger or down sizing by that time, unless their new projects take off; but torrents and iTunes are pwning them.)
My point is the Wii(Nintendo) is revolutionizing gaming, but for as long as the gamers that could buy the Space Marine games are on the Ps360, developers won't see the need to make them on the Wii, as Malstrom (HappySquriel is happy) said 'show me the money indeed'.
But rest assured Nintendo has a plan for that too - like you I'm kind of FUD because I don't want to wait that long for them to get it out there so 3rd parties can jump on the Wagon and evolve their gaming beyond the graphical envelope pushing.
Rubang B said something very smart but I'll bend it a little: gamers should be playing games not game engines. It seems like Consoles are turning into PC's, even the Wii to an extent but no where near as much as PS360.
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