Who says they have to perfectly downgrade them? "good" allows for some flexibility. We saw what could be done on the PS2, and that's still more than what's going on here.

Hopefully EA just avoid the Wii for the next NFS game, and make party or pet games.

At least then, we wont have to put up with another thread like this. We really should have an official "This 3rd party Wii game sucks compared to it's HD counterpart" thread.

Oh, poor EA, how can blame them, after all hardcore games don't sell on Wii. Btw, it's even more embarassing considering how Criterion made racing games look on Ps2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPYkLwGB08g

The PS2 was a console that could sell games like NFS and Burnout in the MILLIONS. It was proven to do so very early on.

The Wii isn't. Thus, it's not worth the effort. The main effort goes into the HD version... Which sell Millions.

Not ONE NFS game has yet sold 1 Million units on the Wii according to our data. While 5 out of 6 have sold over !1Million on the 360 (The 6th being the recently released HP), and 3 out of the 5 NFS games on PS3 have sold over 1 Million... Again, with one of those 5 games being HP. Hell... NFS Shift on the PS3 alone has almost outsold every NFS game on the Wii combined.

NFS on the HD consoles has sold over 15 Million units. NFS on the Wii has sold under 2.5 Million units.

It's blatantly obvious why the Wii version doesn't get half as much attention as the HD version.

The PS2 was a console that could sell games like NFS and Burnout in the MILLIONS. It was proven to do so very early on.

The Wii isn't. Thus, it's not worth the effort. The main effort goes into the HD version... Which sell Millions.

Not ONE NFS game has yet sold 1 Million units on the Wii according to our data. While 5 out of 6 have sold over !1Million on the 360 (The 6th being the recently released HP), and 3 out of the 5 NFS games on PS3 have sold over 1 Million... Again, with one of those 5 games being HP. Hell... NFS Shift on the PS3 alone has almost outsold every NFS game on the Wii combined.

NFS on the HD consoles has sold over 15 Million units. NFS on the Wii has sold under 2.5 Million units.

It's blatantly obvious why the Wii version doesn't get half as much attention as the HD version.

True, but the problem here, is that on Ps2 there was proof that you could make a good racing game and sell it because there were some good racing games... on Wii how can you prove that good racing games won't sell if no one has deleloped a single good racing game yet?

So far the only good racing game I know on Wii has sold more that 20million copies. Companies like EA are complaining because you can't sell hardcore games on Wii while their best effort was a rail-shooter, something that may have been considered cool in 1995, maybe...

The PS2 dominated Marketshare, and shared similar specs to the other consoles on the market at the time. This way it got easy (and still good) ports, and also could get games made for it easily ported to other consoles.

The Wii, while far out in front of the competition on actual sales, isn't actually dominating in Marketshare anywhere near like the PS2 was. Add in the fact that it's a SD console and the competition are both similar... And things wont go it's way all the time. This is nobody but Nintendo's own fault.

My point is, why bother making new, standout versions of games for the Wii, 4 years into it's lifecycle, when it's both a) STILL an unproven userbase and b) Game Engines for said games are already up and running extremely well on the HD consoles... And those games sell Millions?

If Nintendo released the Wii as a HD console... There would be no problems now. It would have the exact same support, if not better, than what PS3 and 360 get.

The PS2 was a console that could sell games like NFS and Burnout in the MILLIONS. It was proven to do so very early on.

The Wii isn't. Thus, it's not worth the effort. The main effort goes into the HD version... Which sell Millions.

Not ONE NFS game has yet sold 1 Million units on the Wii according to our data. While 5 out of 6 have sold over !1Million on the 360 (The 6th being the recently released HP), and 3 out of the 5 NFS games on PS3 have sold over 1 Million... Again, with one of those 5 games being HP. Hell... NFS Shift on the PS3 alone has almost outsold every NFS game on the Wii combined.

NFS on the HD consoles has sold over 15 Million units. NFS on the Wii has sold under 2.5 Million units.

It's blatantly obvious why the Wii version doesn't get half as much attention as the HD version.

so the obvious course of action is to do nothing to make the game better. put no effort into it and wonder why no one likes it....makes sense....?