Smash_Brother on 10 January 2008
"The fuss", as it were, probably stems from the fact that this next game will feature online play while M&S had nothing but a lousy leaderboard system and without a doubt Sega will put more effort into the graphics on this one than they did the Wii version.
I've played M&S: it's a good game, but it's clear that Sega could have put a bit more effort into it than they did, like online play for the fencing and table tennis games.
If you subtract the Mario and Sonic licenses, you have an olympic game being released for the Wii and then you have a better iteration of the same game with online play being made for other consoles. Yes, the Wii got it first, but it did so at the cost of some desirable features which would have added a great deal of longevity to the game.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
