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Forums - Nintendo - For the Wii's sake, the PS2 must be discontinued this year

Ok, first things first, I don't hate the PS2. I think that is a great console with great games. What it bothers me is this. Everytime they announce a multiplatfrom game, and they announce it for the Xbox360, PS3 and the Wii..suddenly they also make it for the PS2 too. weird huh?

 Yeah I know, at first one thinks: "oh, ok, the PS2 has lots of users and is an obvious choice"...until you find out that the studios that make the PS2 versions are handling the Wii versions too! Alone in the dark 5, star wars force unleashed and sonic unleashed are some examples:

 The results are games in the Wii that looks like PS2 games. And that sucks a lot. We all know that the Wii is a "Gamecube 1.5" or a "buffed up Xbox(1)". So that means they can do games much better than the PS2.

 But since the wii appeared, companies are so lazy to make (good) games for it, first with the wii mote device and now with the technical aspects. I know that the Wii doesn't had the same horsepower of the xbox360/PS3 but it can do much better than the PS2! heck even much better than the Gamecube and the Xbox.

 But because the PS2 is still out, companies won't give a damn and keep making mediocre ports without even getting advantage of the Wii. 

Yeah is not the PS2 fault but companies.  I suppose that until the PS2 is out (which seems to take some time) we keep looking mediocre games for 3d parties. and that's unfair.

 

  



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I see your point, but Sony is gonna keep the PS2 going as long as possible. That is their competition for the Wii, it has all kinds of casual games and its really cheap.



insomniac17 said:
I see your point, but Sony is gonna keep the PS2 going as long as possible. That is their competition for the Wii, it has all kinds of casual games and its really cheap.

 Yeah I know and otherwise it would be cool but then when we'll see games that take more advantage on the wii without looking like PS2-clones? Is like Miyamoto said, when 3d parties make games for the wii they give the responsability to low key studios and is not fair.



why is it unfair?

if you want the nicer grafix, get the ps3 or 360 versions

you can't have it all



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Even if the PS2 were to die out tomorrow the more half-assed developers that can't be bothered to make a real Wii game would probably find some way to keep PSP/Wii development alive. I mean, some of them already have...



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Ajax said:
why is it unfair?

if you want the nicer grafix, get the ps3 or 360 versions

you can't have it all


we can have better graphics in the Wii. Nintendo has prove it.



ClaudeLv250 said:
Even if the PS2 were to die out tomorrow the more half-assed developers that can't be bothered to make a real Wii game would probably find some way to keep PSP/Wii development alive. I mean, some of them already have...

 hmm...oh yeah I forgot the PSP too x_X



Bobbuffalo said:
Ajax said:
why is it unfair?

if you want the nicer grafix, get the ps3 or 360 versions

you can't have it all


we can't have better graphics in the Wii. Nintendo has prove it.


 I meant "we CAN have better graphics.." sorry XD



I haven't bought a game for my PS2 since Tomb Raider Anniversary, mid 2007. If a good PS2 game is released, odds are I won't buy it. If the exact same game comes out for the Wii, I may give it a look. Maybe the games aren't being maximized for the Wii, but as long as the game is good, I won't complain too loudly.



I think the Wii is holding the PS2 back. Soooooo, no more Wii ports, I agree.