Id also suggest Journalists start supporting the Wii too.

If their was more coverage maybe Wii 3rd party games would have a chance

megaman79 said: Id also suggest Journalists start supporting the Wii too. If their was more coverage maybe Wii 3rd party games would have a chance

True. But with Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip and the Balance Board it has gone a little better, I think. With more Balance Board enabled good games and Wii Motion+ games, Wii and the games on Wii might get more coverage.

colonelstubbs said: Tell this all to the developers of the wii version of cod 5

 

Once you're at it, go to all the developers of Shaun White Snowboarding, Sonic Unleashed, Lego series, etc,etc.

Hohoho yeah this will work amazingly. I am looking to the first publisher who tries that. Luckily there is an amazing variety of great games on the HD consoles so gamers don't need to buy a game that was designed for a hugely inferior machine, loosing the one thing that the small machine has as an technical advantage in: the innovative controls.

PDF said: I hope they never do. For a good part they never will totally because the HD market is too profitable to just give up and the Wii market is still risky. Third Party companies will increase Wii support and will learn how to sell to the Wii(causal base) successfully but I bet for majority of this gen most support will still be on the PS360. My belief is that more and more support going to the Wii = less quality titles. The games on the Wii that sale are either Ninty based or very casual. I want my top of the line big expensive games but if a company could make some stupid waggle your wii game and sell just as much they will. We will then see the decline in quality

Then why are so many publishers losing money?

Kyros said: porting the games to the more powerful systems Hohoho yeah this will work amazingly. I am looking to the first publisher who tries that. Luckily there is an amazing variety of great games on the HD consoles so gamers don't need to buy a game that was designed for a hugely inferior machine, loosing the one thing that the small machine has as an technical advantage in: the innovative controls.

The real problem with HD console development is that the vast majority of games do not sell well enough to support the cost of producing the content to push the graphical capabilities of the system ...

If developers produced games where the Wii was the "Target" version, and they had higher definition textures and possibly higher detailed models for the HD console versions, the development costs would be much more in line with what the games' sales could support and the companies would be better off for it. Certainly, it might be dumb for Epic to target the Wii with Gears of War 3 but it would probably make more sense for games that won't break 2 Million in sales to take this approach.

 

Some developers invested so heavily in their game engines to run on 360/ps3 (such as epic) that they're fighting tooth and nail to avoid Wii

No it wouldn't because the sales of a PS360 game that looks like a Wii game would be ~ 0. Making worse graphics is always possible you don't need a Wii excuse for it. Nobody does it because there is something called competition.

Kyros said: developers produced games where the Wii was the "Target" version, and they had higher definition textures and possibly higher detailed models for the HD console versions, the development costs would be much more in line with what the games' sales could support No it wouldn't because the sales of a PS360 game that looks like a Wii game would be ~ 0. Making worse graphics is always possible you don't need a Wii excuse for it. Nobody does it because there is something called competition.

 

So, you're basically saying that a large portion of developers should abandon the HD consoles because they couldn't possibly produce games at a more modest budget and still turn a profit?

No I am basically saying that a large portion of developers should DIE. Its called consolidation. Apparently other developers are able to make better games. If they make sucky games on HD consoles they will also make sucky games on the Wii. Besides the Wii sales still suck for thirdparty games that are not in the party game genre, so I do not see your point. I don't know how much money it did cost to make for example the Wii version of World at War but I am pretty sure that the HD console version was more profitable, after all the PS360 versions take ~95% of sales.