| Bodhesatva said: This, Tenchu 4, Mad World, Fatal Frame 4. I'll tentatively state that Japanese developers appear to be getting on board the Wii now. Western developers? Well... EA did recently announce that they were increasing the quality and quantity of their sports franchises on the Wii (NCAA Football and NBA Live will be appearing on a Nintendo console for the first time in 4 years; all games are built from the ground up on the Wii with considerably more features than last year). Other than that, not much. I still believe the Western Developer problem is twofold: Publishers and Developers. Publishers are still afraid of Nintendo first party and are not entirely sure how to market to this new demographic (when you've been marketing to 10-26 year old males for two decades straight, any shift is hard to make). Western developers have fairly consistently relied on top end hardware to fuel games, as a large portion of them started on PC, and equate better hardware with better games. With recent comments from Rockstar ("fuck casual gaming") and Infinity Ward ("CoD4 wouldn't be a right fit for the Wii"), I think it's fairly clear that a lot of Western devleopers simply do not want to work on the Wii, and will fight to work on the PC, 360, PS3, or some combination thereof. |
You skipped Monster Hunter 3, Fragile, Oboro Muramasa Youtouden, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Tales of Symphonia 2, and King's Story.
Japanese devs are very quickly moving to Wii-focused development. Looking at the sales situation in the land of the rising sun that's not exactly surprising. I mean my god, the Balance Board has outsold the PS3.
