| mrstickball said: I guess my simple question would be that if it's possible, why aren't the developers cashing in on the Wii's sales and porting every single PS360 game to the Wii? |
"What I learned last week from Lewis was that, like many Wii releases in the last year or so, the Wii SKU was tacked on after the machine became a surprise success. “CivRev was originally a 360/PS3 project and was in development for over a year before the Wii/DS platforms were added, largely because we saw the success of those platforms and a lot of people (including myself) were very excited about them,” said Lewis in an e-mail to Multiplayer. But there was a bigger challenge: working on a Wii version required a completely new set of graphics and a very different control interface.
“All of our assets were originally created with the 360/PS3 in mind. In order to bring them to the Wii, a great deal of work would have to go into making those assets look appropriate on Nintendo’s system. If we had started the project with all four platforms in mind, it is far more likely that we would not have put the Wii version of CivRev on hold,” said Lewis."
So add in the fact that the Wii's only overcome the "fad" stigma a few months back, and that the development cycle is about two years, and I think it'll be another year or so until we start seeing more and more cross-platform titles for the system. Mind you, I fully expect the Wii version to mostly be handled by a separate team (Force Unleashed, Sonic Unleashed, Alone in the Dark, etc.) but I do expect that they will come.
