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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - worst examples of wii developers sleight of hand (ports, pricing, etc)

tastyshovelware on 01 March 2008

sega:

1. sega bass fishing.... a port of a DC game that came out in 1999. there is some new content to be had, but im pretty sure a good portion of that was available in sega bass fishing 2 which was released for the DC in 2001.

2. house of the dead 2 and 3 return.... a port of house of the dead 3 from 2002. sega never mentioned to gamers that HotD2 was also available on that disk. they are adding only an extreme mode.... which doesn't sound like anything special.

capcom:
3. RE: 0.... a port of a game that hit shelves in 2002. Hopes of any notable new content are slim. Japan only (for now).

temco:
4. rygar: the battle of argus.... "based on" rygar: the legendary adventure which came out for the ps2 in 2002. Expect some new content.... and a lot of old content.

also, honorable mentions:
5. castle shikigami 3.... a port of an arcade game that came out in japan in 2005. i liked the no frills castle shikigami 2, but it was released for the ps2 at the budget price of $14.99. the new game is hitting the wii at $39.99!

6. and, of course, there is all that wonderful shoverlware.

am i missing anything?


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Rath on 01 March 2008

I thought RE:0 was going to be a remake rather than a port?



tastyshovelware on 01 March 2008

wii-make. new controls. capcom wouldn't bother fully remaking a gamecube title.


from wikipedia (i know i shouldn't live by this site but it's correct on this matter):

"According to Famitsu, the Wii version will be a direct port of the Gamecube version with no new content or changes other than Wii controls."


11ht11 on 01 March 2008

already released but ghost squad wii from sega



Onyxmeth on 01 March 2008

So long as there is a situation to take advantage of, developers will go that extra mile to exploit the Wii. Don't expect this to stop anytime soon. It's a shame really. There are great thing that can be done with the Wiimote , and most developers are happily filling out the PS2's lineup on the Wii now. Maybe for some that's nice, but I still own a PS2, and the game's are usually cheaper on it by a lot.



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quigontcb on 02 March 2008

I don't see how Rygar is a bad example of porting, and it certainly isn't "sleight of hand". It was originally going to come out last year, but has been delayed well into this year. Sounds like they taking their time with it. They've been saying this was a remake+ almost since they made mention of the game, so there is no deceit there.

There is really very little info on the game besides the basics. It's a little early to be making your mind up, unless you were one of the few people who played Rygar on PS2. Still, that wouldn't make the project a "sleight of hand".



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Game_boy on 02 March 2008

Would you rather the Wii had just a few quality games or a few quality games and thousands of shovelware titles?

Which one made the PS and PS2 successful?



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HappySqurriel on 02 March 2008

Although I'm not happy with the number of ports on the Wii but I can't blame publishers for doing it either ...

The main reasons PS3 and XBox 360 games have such higher development costs is they require far more developers, working for a much longer timeframe, in order to produce a game; it is not uncommon for PS3 or XBox 360 games to take 2 to 3 years to develop with a development team that is twice the size of a PS2 project.

Publishers heavily banked on the success of the PS3 from the start and many of the best development teams were allocated to produce PS3 games before it launched (and possibly before the price was announced at E3 2006); many of these projects have still not been released so the development team is still not available to work on anything except for that project.

Now the sales of the Wii means that third party publishers want to heavily support the Wii, and they really want their high quality well known franchises released on the system; at the same time their (from the ground up) bigger budget, high quality Wii games may be 9 (or more) months away, they have very limited resources to allocate to more Wii games, and they need more Wii games today. The result of all of these factors is driving publishers to take previously completed games and invest in some rework for the Wii.

 



Sky Render on 02 March 2008

This is largely unimportant, but it's Tecmo, not Temco. To be fair, I didn't notice this fact for about 15 years, despite having Tecmo Bowl sitting in my NES collection for at least that long...



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kingofwale on 02 March 2008

Chicken Shoot: a port of a 2003 flash game. Price 30 bucks at Bestbuy

NinjaBread man: a port of 2005 horrible PC/PS2 game. Price: FULL PRICE



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