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What a sad, sad topic.  I can't see how a true gamer could disagree with the OP, and the best argument for that position is "look at the top 50."  Well, go ahead and look at it.  When a core game with real effort put into it hits the system it does pretty well.  Monster Hunter has been deemed "too Japanese to sell in the West" for a long time, but it's top 50.  And look at CoD.  When they bother to release a game day and date it does pretty well.  The problem is that most people who play CoD are social (aka "casual") gamers who buy every year to keep up with their friends, yet the Wii doesn't get the latest CoD every year.  Of course CoD would sell poorly on a system where CoD doesn't get full-hearted support.

Now go beyond that.  Name some games that undoubtedly would have been top 50 on PS3/360 that were released on the Wii.  Anything?  Don't say Conduit, because as much as I like HVS's moxie they didn't deliver a product that would have sold any better with the mere addition of HD graphics.  Don't say Madworld or No more Heroes, because they were niche titles.  Name one attempt to make a game that had everything, and I mean everything, in place so that they would have sold on an HD system but also got an SD version and failed miserably.  You can't do it.

There was no lack of hardcore gamers on the Wii, just a lack of hardcore support.  On the rare occasion that a big title hit Wii as well as its competitors, at the same time and without business decisions that failed to build the proper level of support, the Wii version stood up for itself and sold.  The only thing that has held back hardcore games on the Wii has been the third parties.  And to ask them to stop shooting themselves in the foot is really just a courtesty.  If Modern Warfare launched on the Wii day and date with all other versions, every other CoD would have sold much better on the Wii than they did because the people who just want to keep playing with their friends could have.  If semi-failures like Mirror's Edge would have done that they may have squeked out enough sales to get another sequel.  If guarenteed hits like GTA4 would have done that the companies would have walked away with a few hundred million dollars to make their next product.

Instead 3rd parties ignored the Wii, and at best threw the least they could its way.  They made games that never made much sense (Deadly Creatures, anyone?).  The made late ports (RE4, anyone?  Oh wait, that sold pretty god damn well despite the disadvantage!)  They made on-rails shooters out of their "core" products (DSC and Extraction anyone?) instead of providing the games people actually wanted to go out and buy.  They never gave the Wii a fair chance, and for that they lost, collectively, billions in potential revenue.

The Wii's library isn't a matter of the market speaking, it's a matter of the 3rd parties not listening.  If I could have a SSF4 in SD only I'd have bought it and not cared in the least*, because it would have been on the system I wanted it to be on.  And looking at the game, there's no reason it couldn't be done on the Wii at a lower resolution.  In fact, until I finally went out and bought an HDMI cable it WAS at that lower resolution while I played.  There's simply no excuse for that.  They have had to cater to the people without HD TVs since day one and it'll be another ten years before 480 resolution is completely obsolete.  They chose not to put the game on the Wii when they absolutely could have, and actual sales numbers prove that if they had even bothered to put the effort in they could have made some money.

So the only reasons not to have made their games Wii-accessible are spite and malice.  Epic has malice, Capcom has spite.  Okay, there is a third reason, money from Sony or MS, but it'd have to be a whole lot, since every single game these companies made had to work in 480 regardless for the people who buy a new TV once every 10-15 years (you know, THE AVERAGE).  So these companies need to be told what's up.  If they fully support their products and their philosophies on a Nintendo system there's an audience, and it's underserved, and a lot of that audience knows that they were ignored for petty reasons.  They need to come back, accept that their product will be enjoyed on whatever system their potential audience owns, and provide the products so that they can maximize their profits. 

Comapnies like Capcom need to forget that Nintendo challenged their bottom-line with the decision to use carts in the N64 and companies like Epic need to remember that once you do something high-res its a lot less work to provide a low-res version than it is to do, well, almost anything else they might consider.  Because they have to provide the low-res setting anyway.  Not every game would have worked on the Wii with a graphics downgrade, sure, but the truth is that most actually would have and that the extra processing power has gone to waste for those who aren't ready/able to buy a new TV. 

Look at games like DMC4 and Bayonetta and try to convince yourselves they couldn't work in lower res on a system several times more powerful than PS2 (which had many, many similar games at lower res).  Unless you have a very intimate knowledge of memory allocation to the point that you can literally say "this scenario is absolutely impossible without more RAM" about some point in either game, there is no excuse for them not being on the Wii other than "the devs/publishers chose not to" and that's not acceptable to me as a consumer.

 

 

*Note:  I own a Wii, a 360, and a PS3.  I can play any and every game released this gen at its fullest as long as it's not PC exclusive (and in a month that will change, as I have a PC coming that handles Crysis 2 at its fullest).



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Oh man. Agree with every word. We need only have to look to the 3rd Party Wall of Shame to see what you are talking about.



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ChichiriMuyo said:

What a sad, sad topic.  I can't see how a true gamer could disagree with the OP, and the best argument for that position is "look at the top 50."  Well, go ahead and look at it.  When a core game with real effort put into it hits the system it does pretty well.  Monster Hunter has been deemed "too Japanese to sell in the West" for a long time, but it's top 50.  And look at CoD.  When they bother to release a game day and date it does pretty well.  The problem is that most people who play CoD are social (aka "casual") gamers who buy every year to keep up with their friends, yet the Wii doesn't get the latest CoD every year.  Of course CoD would sell poorly on a system where CoD doesn't get full-hearted support.

Now go beyond that.  Name some games that undoubtedly would have been top 50 on PS3/360 that were released on the Wii.  Anything?  Don't say Conduit, because as much as I like HVS's moxie they didn't deliver a product that would have sold any better with the mere addition of HD graphics.  Don't say Madworld or No more Heroes, because they were niche titles.  Name one attempt to make a game that had everything, and I mean everything, in place so that they would have sold on an HD system but also got an SD version and failed miserably.  You can't do it.

There was no lack of hardcore gamers on the Wii, just a lack of hardcore support.  On the rare occasion that a big title hit Wii as well as its competitors, at the same time and without business decisions that failed to build the proper level of support, the Wii version stood up for itself and sold.  The only thing that has held back hardcore games on the Wii has been the third parties.  And to ask them to stop shooting themselves in the foot is really just a courtesty.  If Modern Warfare launched on the Wii day and date with all other versions, every other CoD would have sold much better on the Wii than they did because the people who just want to keep playing with their friends could have.  If semi-failures like Mirror's Edge would have done that they may have squeked out enough sales to get another sequel.  If guarenteed hits like GTA4 would have done that the companies would have walked away with a few hundred million dollars to make their next product.

Instead 3rd parties ignored the Wii, and at best threw the least they could its way.  They made games that never made much sense (Deadly Creatures, anyone?).  The made late ports (RE4, anyone?  Oh wait, that sold pretty god damn well despite the disadvantage!)  They made on-rails shooters out of their "core" products (DSC and Extraction anyone?) instead of providing the games people actually wanted to go out and buy.  They never gave the Wii a fair chance, and for that they lost, collectively, billions in potential revenue.

The Wii's library isn't a matter of the market speaking, it's a matter of the 3rd parties not listening.  If I could have a SSF4 in SD only I'd have bought it and not cared in the least*, because it would have been on the system I wanted it to be on.  And looking at the game, there's no reason it couldn't be done on the Wii at a lower resolution.  In fact, until I finally went out and bought an HDMI cable it WAS at that lower resolution while I played.  There's simply no excuse for that.  They have had to cater to the people without HD TVs since day one and it'll be another ten years before 480 resolution is completely obsolete.  They chose not to put the game on the Wii when they absolutely could have, and actual sales numbers prove that if they had even bothered to put the effort in they could have made some money.

So the only reasons not to have made their games Wii-accessible are spite and malice.  Epic has malice, Capcom has spite.  Okay, there is a third reason, money from Sony or MS, but it'd have to be a whole lot, since every single game these companies made had to work in 480 regardless for the people who buy a new TV once every 10-15 years (you know, THE AVERAGE).  So these companies need to be told what's up.  If they fully support their products and their philosophies on a Nintendo system there's an audience, and it's underserved, and a lot of that audience knows that they were ignored for petty reasons.  They need to come back, accept that their product will be enjoyed on whatever system their potential audience owns, and provide the products so that they can maximize their profits. 

Comapnies like Capcom need to forget that Nintendo challenged their bottom-line with the decision to use carts in the N64 and companies like Epic need to remember that once you do something high-res its a lot less work to provide a low-res version than it is to do, well, almost anything else they might consider.  Because they have to provide the low-res setting anyway.  Not every game would have worked on the Wii with a graphics downgrade, sure, but the truth is that most actually would have and that the extra processing power has gone to waste for those who aren't ready/able to buy a new TV. 

Look at games like DMC4 and Bayonetta and try to convince yourselves they couldn't work in lower res on a system several times more powerful than PS2 (which had many, many similar games at lower res).  Unless you have a very intimate knowledge of memory allocation to the point that you can literally say "this scenario is absolutely impossible without more RAM" about some point in either game, there is no excuse for them not being on the Wii other than "the devs/publishers chose not to" and that's not acceptable to me as a consumer.

 

 

*Note:  I own a Wii, a 360, and a PS3.  I can play any and every game released this gen at its fullest as long as it's not PC exclusive (and in a month that will change, as I have a PC coming that handles Crysis 2 at its fullest).


What's the key thing in CoD ?

Multiplayer, DLC for additional maps  and  patches.

None of those are well supported on the Wii........



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PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Ail said:
ChichiriMuyo said:

What a sad, sad topic.  I can't see how a true gamer could disagree with the OP, and the best argument for that position is "look at the top 50."  Well, go ahead and look at it.  When a core game with real effort put into it hits the system it does pretty well.  Monster Hunter has been deemed "too Japanese to sell in the West" for a long time, but it's top 50.  And look at CoD.  When they bother to release a game day and date it does pretty well.  The problem is that most people who play CoD are social (aka "casual") gamers who buy every year to keep up with their friends, yet the Wii doesn't get the latest CoD every year.  Of course CoD would sell poorly on a system where CoD doesn't get full-hearted support.

Now go beyond that.  Name some games that undoubtedly would have been top 50 on PS3/360 that were released on the Wii.  Anything?  Don't say Conduit, because as much as I like HVS's moxie they didn't deliver a product that would have sold any better with the mere addition of HD graphics.  Don't say Madworld or No more Heroes, because they were niche titles.  Name one attempt to make a game that had everything, and I mean everything, in place so that they would have sold on an HD system but also got an SD version and failed miserably.  You can't do it.

There was no lack of hardcore gamers on the Wii, just a lack of hardcore support.  On the rare occasion that a big title hit Wii as well as its competitors, at the same time and without business decisions that failed to build the proper level of support, the Wii version stood up for itself and sold.  The only thing that has held back hardcore games on the Wii has been the third parties.  And to ask them to stop shooting themselves in the foot is really just a courtesty.  If Modern Warfare launched on the Wii day and date with all other versions, every other CoD would have sold much better on the Wii than they did because the people who just want to keep playing with their friends could have.  If semi-failures like Mirror's Edge would have done that they may have squeked out enough sales to get another sequel.  If guarenteed hits like GTA4 would have done that the companies would have walked away with a few hundred million dollars to make their next product.

Instead 3rd parties ignored the Wii, and at best threw the least they could its way.  They made games that never made much sense (Deadly Creatures, anyone?).  The made late ports (RE4, anyone?  Oh wait, that sold pretty god damn well despite the disadvantage!)  They made on-rails shooters out of their "core" products (DSC and Extraction anyone?) instead of providing the games people actually wanted to go out and buy.  They never gave the Wii a fair chance, and for that they lost, collectively, billions in potential revenue.

The Wii's library isn't a matter of the market speaking, it's a matter of the 3rd parties not listening.  If I could have a SSF4 in SD only I'd have bought it and not cared in the least*, because it would have been on the system I wanted it to be on.  And looking at the game, there's no reason it couldn't be done on the Wii at a lower resolution.  In fact, until I finally went out and bought an HDMI cable it WAS at that lower resolution while I played.  There's simply no excuse for that.  They have had to cater to the people without HD TVs since day one and it'll be another ten years before 480 resolution is completely obsolete.  They chose not to put the game on the Wii when they absolutely could have, and actual sales numbers prove that if they had even bothered to put the effort in they could have made some money.

So the only reasons not to have made their games Wii-accessible are spite and malice.  Epic has malice, Capcom has spite.  Okay, there is a third reason, money from Sony or MS, but it'd have to be a whole lot, since every single game these companies made had to work in 480 regardless for the people who buy a new TV once every 10-15 years (you know, THE AVERAGE).  So these companies need to be told what's up.  If they fully support their products and their philosophies on a Nintendo system there's an audience, and it's underserved, and a lot of that audience knows that they were ignored for petty reasons.  They need to come back, accept that their product will be enjoyed on whatever system their potential audience owns, and provide the products so that they can maximize their profits. 

Comapnies like Capcom need to forget that Nintendo challenged their bottom-line with the decision to use carts in the N64 and companies like Epic need to remember that once you do something high-res its a lot less work to provide a low-res version than it is to do, well, almost anything else they might consider.  Because they have to provide the low-res setting anyway.  Not every game would have worked on the Wii with a graphics downgrade, sure, but the truth is that most actually would have and that the extra processing power has gone to waste for those who aren't ready/able to buy a new TV. 

Look at games like DMC4 and Bayonetta and try to convince yourselves they couldn't work in lower res on a system several times more powerful than PS2 (which had many, many similar games at lower res).  Unless you have a very intimate knowledge of memory allocation to the point that you can literally say "this scenario is absolutely impossible without more RAM" about some point in either game, there is no excuse for them not being on the Wii other than "the devs/publishers chose not to" and that's not acceptable to me as a consumer.

 

 

*Note:  I own a Wii, a 360, and a PS3.  I can play any and every game released this gen at its fullest as long as it's not PC exclusive (and in a month that will change, as I have a PC coming that handles Crysis 2 at its fullest).


What's the key thing in CoD ?

Multiplayer, DLC for additional maps  and  patches.

None of those are well supported on the Wii........


Those were common in FPS before Modern Warfare exploded, so that is not the reason.



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LordTheNightKnight said:
Ail said:
ChichiriMuyo said:

What a sad, sad topic.  I can't see how a true gamer could disagree with the OP, and the best argument for that position is "look at the top 50."  Well, go ahead and look at it.  When a core game with real effort put into it hits the system it does pretty well.  Monster Hunter has been deemed "too Japanese to sell in the West" for a long time, but it's top 50.  And look at CoD.  When they bother to release a game day and date it does pretty well.  The problem is that most people who play CoD are social (aka "casual") gamers who buy every year to keep up with their friends, yet the Wii doesn't get the latest CoD every year.  Of course CoD would sell poorly on a system where CoD doesn't get full-hearted support.

Now go beyond that.  Name some games that undoubtedly would have been top 50 on PS3/360 that were released on the Wii.  Anything?  Don't say Conduit, because as much as I like HVS's moxie they didn't deliver a product that would have sold any better with the mere addition of HD graphics.  Don't say Madworld or No more Heroes, because they were niche titles.  Name one attempt to make a game that had everything, and I mean everything, in place so that they would have sold on an HD system but also got an SD version and failed miserably.  You can't do it.

There was no lack of hardcore gamers on the Wii, just a lack of hardcore support.  On the rare occasion that a big title hit Wii as well as its competitors, at the same time and without business decisions that failed to build the proper level of support, the Wii version stood up for itself and sold.  The only thing that has held back hardcore games on the Wii has been the third parties.  And to ask them to stop shooting themselves in the foot is really just a courtesty.  If Modern Warfare launched on the Wii day and date with all other versions, every other CoD would have sold much better on the Wii than they did because the people who just want to keep playing with their friends could have.  If semi-failures like Mirror's Edge would have done that they may have squeked out enough sales to get another sequel.  If guarenteed hits like GTA4 would have done that the companies would have walked away with a few hundred million dollars to make their next product.

Instead 3rd parties ignored the Wii, and at best threw the least they could its way.  They made games that never made much sense (Deadly Creatures, anyone?).  The made late ports (RE4, anyone?  Oh wait, that sold pretty god damn well despite the disadvantage!)  They made on-rails shooters out of their "core" products (DSC and Extraction anyone?) instead of providing the games people actually wanted to go out and buy.  They never gave the Wii a fair chance, and for that they lost, collectively, billions in potential revenue.

The Wii's library isn't a matter of the market speaking, it's a matter of the 3rd parties not listening.  If I could have a SSF4 in SD only I'd have bought it and not cared in the least*, because it would have been on the system I wanted it to be on.  And looking at the game, there's no reason it couldn't be done on the Wii at a lower resolution.  In fact, until I finally went out and bought an HDMI cable it WAS at that lower resolution while I played.  There's simply no excuse for that.  They have had to cater to the people without HD TVs since day one and it'll be another ten years before 480 resolution is completely obsolete.  They chose not to put the game on the Wii when they absolutely could have, and actual sales numbers prove that if they had even bothered to put the effort in they could have made some money.

So the only reasons not to have made their games Wii-accessible are spite and malice.  Epic has malice, Capcom has spite.  Okay, there is a third reason, money from Sony or MS, but it'd have to be a whole lot, since every single game these companies made had to work in 480 regardless for the people who buy a new TV once every 10-15 years (you know, THE AVERAGE).  So these companies need to be told what's up.  If they fully support their products and their philosophies on a Nintendo system there's an audience, and it's underserved, and a lot of that audience knows that they were ignored for petty reasons.  They need to come back, accept that their product will be enjoyed on whatever system their potential audience owns, and provide the products so that they can maximize their profits. 

Comapnies like Capcom need to forget that Nintendo challenged their bottom-line with the decision to use carts in the N64 and companies like Epic need to remember that once you do something high-res its a lot less work to provide a low-res version than it is to do, well, almost anything else they might consider.  Because they have to provide the low-res setting anyway.  Not every game would have worked on the Wii with a graphics downgrade, sure, but the truth is that most actually would have and that the extra processing power has gone to waste for those who aren't ready/able to buy a new TV. 

Look at games like DMC4 and Bayonetta and try to convince yourselves they couldn't work in lower res on a system several times more powerful than PS2 (which had many, many similar games at lower res).  Unless you have a very intimate knowledge of memory allocation to the point that you can literally say "this scenario is absolutely impossible without more RAM" about some point in either game, there is no excuse for them not being on the Wii other than "the devs/publishers chose not to" and that's not acceptable to me as a consumer.

 

 

*Note:  I own a Wii, a 360, and a PS3.  I can play any and every game released this gen at its fullest as long as it's not PC exclusive (and in a month that will change, as I have a PC coming that handles Crysis 2 at its fullest).


What's the key thing in CoD ?

Multiplayer, DLC for additional maps  and  patches.

None of those are well supported on the Wii........


Those were common in FPS before Modern Warfare exploded, so that is not the reason.

Also, CoD sells well, though not explosively, on the Wii without them.  In fact, Activision alone is the reason why those things aren't implemented.  They can have those things on the PC if they want to pay for them and they can have them on the Wii if they want to pay for them.  They didn't, because, again, third parties are too eager to abandon Nintendo despite the fact that there is money to be made on their systems.  If Activision gave FULL support to the Wii, it's possible that it may have even had the biggest install base for CoD among the three consoles.  They just never gave it a chance because that'd require effort, and why put effort in when you can make money anyway, right?

So thanks for further illustrating my point.

The existence of live and psn don't make online possible, because online existed back when companies made it happen themselves.  Same for "dlc" and patches (aka updates, pre live/psn).  These things could have happned on the Wii if they did them properly, but yet again they simply chose not to do things properly because they thought there was more money elsewhere.



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fps_d0minat0r said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
fps_d0minat0r said:

you cant expect the same quality game with considerably lower hardware specifications and that will impact sales to a certain extent.

wii2 will have the lead for a year or two (in terms of hardware power) but that time wont be worth investing in since it will have a low install base. 3rd party developers would rather just make 360/ps3 (100m install base) ports for wii2 until ps4/x720 comes out.

being first to release a next gen console has both advantages and disadvantages.


That's why I say if they do that, they can go you-know-where, since it shows they wouldn't support Nintendo properly no matter what, or the public in the event the system still outsells those later systems.


thats correct, as long as nintendo keep producing hardware which isnt as powerful as its competitors, it will get inferior versions of games (if any at all). its an obvisous fact. you cant expect the same quality game with half the hardware no matter how much time or money you throw at it.

If nintendo's next system is as powerful as the next xbox or ps3, i would bet my life it would get identical versions of multiplatform games.

I think that if Nintendo brings out a system that is powerful and easy to create games on, then it would get better support. The Wii was easy to develope for, but was weaker than the other systems in the market, and that is a problem to most developers. If the Wii was closer in power but still weaker than the other systems, it would most likely have PS2 like support and be a monster thoughout the generation.



ChichiriMuyo said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Ail said:
ChichiriMuyo said:

What a sad, sad topic.  I can't see how a true gamer could disagree with the OP, and the best argument for that position is "look at the top 50."  Well, go ahead and look at it.  When a core game with real effort put into it hits the system it does pretty well.  Monster Hunter has been deemed "too Japanese to sell in the West" for a long time, but it's top 50.  And look at CoD.  When they bother to release a game day and date it does pretty well.  The problem is that most people who play CoD are social (aka "casual") gamers who buy every year to keep up with their friends, yet the Wii doesn't get the latest CoD every year.  Of course CoD would sell poorly on a system where CoD doesn't get full-hearted support.

Now go beyond that.  Name some games that undoubtedly would have been top 50 on PS3/360 that were released on the Wii.  Anything?  Don't say Conduit, because as much as I like HVS's moxie they didn't deliver a product that would have sold any better with the mere addition of HD graphics.  Don't say Madworld or No more Heroes, because they were niche titles.  Name one attempt to make a game that had everything, and I mean everything, in place so that they would have sold on an HD system but also got an SD version and failed miserably.  You can't do it.

There was no lack of hardcore gamers on the Wii, just a lack of hardcore support.  On the rare occasion that a big title hit Wii as well as its competitors, at the same time and without business decisions that failed to build the proper level of support, the Wii version stood up for itself and sold.  The only thing that has held back hardcore games on the Wii has been the third parties.  And to ask them to stop shooting themselves in the foot is really just a courtesty.  If Modern Warfare launched on the Wii day and date with all other versions, every other CoD would have sold much better on the Wii than they did because the people who just want to keep playing with their friends could have.  If semi-failures like Mirror's Edge would have done that they may have squeked out enough sales to get another sequel.  If guarenteed hits like GTA4 would have done that the companies would have walked away with a few hundred million dollars to make their next product.

Instead 3rd parties ignored the Wii, and at best threw the least they could its way.  They made games that never made much sense (Deadly Creatures, anyone?).  The made late ports (RE4, anyone?  Oh wait, that sold pretty god damn well despite the disadvantage!)  They made on-rails shooters out of their "core" products (DSC and Extraction anyone?) instead of providing the games people actually wanted to go out and buy.  They never gave the Wii a fair chance, and for that they lost, collectively, billions in potential revenue.

The Wii's library isn't a matter of the market speaking, it's a matter of the 3rd parties not listening.  If I could have a SSF4 in SD only I'd have bought it and not cared in the least*, because it would have been on the system I wanted it to be on.  And looking at the game, there's no reason it couldn't be done on the Wii at a lower resolution.  In fact, until I finally went out and bought an HDMI cable it WAS at that lower resolution while I played.  There's simply no excuse for that.  They have had to cater to the people without HD TVs since day one and it'll be another ten years before 480 resolution is completely obsolete.  They chose not to put the game on the Wii when they absolutely could have, and actual sales numbers prove that if they had even bothered to put the effort in they could have made some money.

So the only reasons not to have made their games Wii-accessible are spite and malice.  Epic has malice, Capcom has spite.  Okay, there is a third reason, money from Sony or MS, but it'd have to be a whole lot, since every single game these companies made had to work in 480 regardless for the people who buy a new TV once every 10-15 years (you know, THE AVERAGE).  So these companies need to be told what's up.  If they fully support their products and their philosophies on a Nintendo system there's an audience, and it's underserved, and a lot of that audience knows that they were ignored for petty reasons.  They need to come back, accept that their product will be enjoyed on whatever system their potential audience owns, and provide the products so that they can maximize their profits. 

Comapnies like Capcom need to forget that Nintendo challenged their bottom-line with the decision to use carts in the N64 and companies like Epic need to remember that once you do something high-res its a lot less work to provide a low-res version than it is to do, well, almost anything else they might consider.  Because they have to provide the low-res setting anyway.  Not every game would have worked on the Wii with a graphics downgrade, sure, but the truth is that most actually would have and that the extra processing power has gone to waste for those who aren't ready/able to buy a new TV. 

Look at games like DMC4 and Bayonetta and try to convince yourselves they couldn't work in lower res on a system several times more powerful than PS2 (which had many, many similar games at lower res).  Unless you have a very intimate knowledge of memory allocation to the point that you can literally say "this scenario is absolutely impossible without more RAM" about some point in either game, there is no excuse for them not being on the Wii other than "the devs/publishers chose not to" and that's not acceptable to me as a consumer.

 

 

*Note:  I own a Wii, a 360, and a PS3.  I can play any and every game released this gen at its fullest as long as it's not PC exclusive (and in a month that will change, as I have a PC coming that handles Crysis 2 at its fullest).


What's the key thing in CoD ?

Multiplayer, DLC for additional maps  and  patches.

None of those are well supported on the Wii........


Those were common in FPS before Modern Warfare exploded, so that is not the reason.

Also, CoD sells well, though not explosively, on the Wii without them.  In fact, Activision alone is the reason why those things aren't implemented.  They can have those things on the PC if they want to pay for them and they can have them on the Wii if they want to pay for them.  They didn't, because, again, third parties are too eager to abandon Nintendo despite the fact that there is money to be made on their systems.  If Activision gave FULL support to the Wii, it's possible that it may have even had the biggest install base for CoD among the three consoles.  They just never gave it a chance because that'd require effort, and why put effort in when you can make money anyway, right?

So thanks for further illustrating my point.

The existence of live and psn don't make online possible, because online existed back when companies made it happen themselves.  Same for "dlc" and patches (aka updates, pre live/psn).  These things could have happned on the Wii if they did them properly, but yet again they simply chose not to do things properly because they thought there was more money elsewhere.


PSN and XboxLive is what made those game successfull and take over the market.

Last Gen the number of PS2 connected to the network was very small, preventing those kind of games to take off.( and Sony was not providing mcuh support).

Fact is this gen, XboxLive for example has been a major commercial argument for the Xbox360.

The big thing the 360 and the PS3 did is make multiplayer games easy to play for the users. You start the console, launch the game and you are online and there are hundred of thousands of matchs running.

Now tell me, when is the last time you saw Nintendo advertising of pushing its network infrastructure on the Wii ?

All along this gen Nintendo has been pushing splitscreen and several users playing together in the same room, not massive online multiplayer...

Last year gamasutra had an article about the percentage of consoles connected to the network.

3/4 of the PS3 and Xbox360 were. Only half of the Wii were connected to the network.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28058/Study_PS3_Has_Highest_Percentage_Of_Connected_Consoles.php

 

And no, it's not Activision's job to go and plug those Wii to the network...



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

LordTheNightKnight said:
Sempuukyaku said:

So long as we get the full, total support of Japanese publishers and developers back, that's all I care about. I'd love to have my Castlevania, and Metal Gear Solid, and Mega Man, and Street Fighter, and MAINLINE Final Fantasy games back. All of these franchises were born on a Nintendo system, and I want them back. Screw the western publishers.

 

Give me these franchises back and I'm a very happy man. 


Castlevnaia and Mega Man, but Street Fighter was from the arcades, and Metal Gear started on the MSX. Also, Mega Man never really left Nintendo, nor did Castlevania (especially on WiiWare). So Final Fantasy is the series that was born and left.


If I recall correctly, Mega Man X4, X5, and X6 were all on Playstation systems, as well as Mega Man 8. The MSX? How many people had one of those? 5? The Metal Gear franchise was practically born on the NES. I'll give you Street Fighter, though. 

 

Fact of the matter is I just want the best and most awesome Japanese developer support. I want the Japanese industry to rise in prominence and power again, and I want Nintendo to be the catalyst for that. I also want Jap third-parties to start making smarter decisions with their IP (Why the hell is Sega trying ANOTHER Sonic game for PS360, for instance?)



Sempuukyaku said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Sempuukyaku said:

So long as we get the full, total support of Japanese publishers and developers back, that's all I care about. I'd love to have my Castlevania, and Metal Gear Solid, and Mega Man, and Street Fighter, and MAINLINE Final Fantasy games back. All of these franchises were born on a Nintendo system, and I want them back. Screw the western publishers.

 

Give me these franchises back and I'm a very happy man. 


Castlevnaia and Mega Man, but Street Fighter was from the arcades, and Metal Gear started on the MSX. Also, Mega Man never really left Nintendo, nor did Castlevania (especially on WiiWare). So Final Fantasy is the series that was born and left.


If I recall correctly, Mega Man X4, X5, and X6 were all on Playstation systems, as well as Mega Man 8. The MSX? How many people had one of those? 5? The Metal Gear franchise was practically born on the NES. I'll give you Street Fighter, though. 

 

Fact of the matter is I just want the best and most awesome Japanese developer support. I want the Japanese industry to rise in prominence and power again, and I want Nintendo to be the catalyst for that. I also want Jap third-parties to start making smarter decisions with their IP (Why the hell is Sega trying ANOTHER Sonic game for PS360, for instance?)


The MSX was big in Japan, so it was notable there. Also, the Mega Man games were still on Nintendo systems, so they never left.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs