@ benga benga

i believe you mean compliment not counter. however good HVS is that cant beat the combined power of marvellous, namco and nintendo

Calm down, sparky. If you'd kindly notice, all I did was correct you. Nowhere did I scold or get anxious. Keep your pants on. :p

Dear Lord. I hope HVS can ship a decent new IP on the Wii before they start making another one... and hyping it as the Next Big Thing (tm) on the Wii.  Heck they just secured a publisher for a game they've been dumping money into for eons.

I hate to tell you guys this, but HVS has never shipped a critically acclaimed game outside of the GC port of Dark Alliance, or Hunter: The Reckoning, both of which were flops, in terms of sales. They have done a load of licensed software... but they haven't exactly made a big splash with it.

You can ooh and aaah over The Conduit all you want, but until it ships... HVS is not exactly the new hotness.  I am very surprised they have been trying to make some new IPs lately, given their track record... and also very disappointed it took them eons to find a publisher for The Conduit... why do you suppose?  I wish them luck with their crazy hype-machine fiddling, but... its just hype until they ship something worth respecting.

If The Conduit flops... is every Wii owner going to set fire to their beloved console?

I don't really care (much) if it flops, as long as I like it.

i don't think the conduit will flop, tho i don't think itll do as good as those overrated and overrhyped and less good FPS on the 360.

@ groucho

u do know that they could have got a publsiher like 5 months ago. but they didnt want the publisher to ruin the game like all their other projects. the same week they revealed the game on ign they got offers from 8 different publishers. they went through all the offers and decided to go with the publisher who is really passioante about catering to core wii owners, not the one who said the game should be 'crapped out for xmas'

WRPG on the Wii?! that would be awesome ! Western Support has been poor for the Wii.

I would enjoy a WRPG on Wii though by the time that comes out I'll probably be spending half my life on Fallout 3, I'm not sure how it would work out, I'd have to see solid facts about the game before I make real judgment though.

I really want them to use Quantum 3 on a lot of action type games, but hey I'll take anything of high quality they make.

I hope it’s not turn based if it’s even in the making :P

That quantum 3 engine sure is versatile..so far we got a fps (Conduit), a futuristic racer/shooter (Gyrostar), an overhead 3rd person shooter (Animales) and a racer (Hod Rod). It's very promising to expand to other genres although the conduit is the first serious flex of the engine. (All the aforementioned games are Wiiware). A space RPG could be interesting although Conduit sales will affect the magnitude of games. Personally i think that HVS are an excellent and succesful Wiiware producer (as seen by sales and popularity of HVS WW software) but remain a company to prove itself in retail sales. They secured a deal with sega too late because they had to push Quantum 3 commercially. Right now Conduit is one of the most anticipated titles on the Wii, but if it fails to deliver in content or sales it will damage the company to handle big project like that and they remain a small title software house i.m.h.o.