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antfromtashkent on 10 February 2009
Euphoria14 said:
Still confused about one thing however.

From this poll how can we come to the conclusion that devs are wrong about the Wii's userbase? What are they wrong about?

There are countless news articles about dev's saying they dont wanna develop for the wii because its a toy, its a fad and the userbase is nothing but kids... well this poll was to see how it staked up to the user base of the HD consoles combined... and since this site has (i wanna say educated about games) crowd i figgured its the perfect place :)

 



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Euphoria14 on 10 February 2009
antfromtashkent said:
Euphoria14 said:
Still confused about one thing however.

From this poll how can we come to the conclusion that devs are wrong about the Wii's userbase? What are they wrong about?

There are countless news articles about dev's saying they dont wanna develop for the wii because its a toy, its a fad and the userbase is nothing but kids... well this poll was to see how it staked up to the user base of the HD consoles combined... and since this site has (i wanna say educated about games) crowd i figgured its the perfect place :)

 

 

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megaman79 on 10 February 2009

Did anyone notice LBP got nominated in the Casual category for the BAFTA videogame awards in the UK.



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mike_intellivision on 10 February 2009

Funny -- the user base pretty much tracks the sales numbers.

Which means that information that is already available is being ignored by developers -- many of whom have a vested interest in graphically-intensive games, so the Wii does not fit their business model. And that is fine. But they should say that instead of insulting the console, which makes them appear to be ignorant, elitists, or both.

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(I still plan to get and post last year's Game Informer survey numbers).



      


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FKNetwork on 10 February 2009
antfromtashkent said:
Euphoria14 said:
Hehe... now ask which one these users play more.

 

 Thats not really necesary since this was just to show that the user base is there for the dev's to take advantage of... and saying that the wii dosent count is just ignorant

The Wii doesn't count, it's a gimmick!

 



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antfromtashkent on 10 February 2009
mike_intellivision said:
Funny -- the user base pretty much tracks the sales numbers.

Which means that information that is already available is being ignored by developers -- many of whom have a vested interest in graphically-intensive games, so the Wii does not fit their business model. And that is fine. But they should say that instead of insulting the console, which makes them appear to be ignorant, elitists, or both.

Mike from Morgantown

(I still plan to get and post last year's Game Informer survey numbers).

I think that that was their business plan from when this gen consoles were being planned... this generation was going to be about graphics from the very begining and the Wii was the bastard stepchild. But now that its not, ofcource the companys are not gonna change... they have been saying this for so long they actually believe it :P

 



tuoyo on 10 February 2009
Euphoria14 said:
antfromtashkent said:
Euphoria14 said:
Still confused about one thing however.

From this poll how can we come to the conclusion that devs are wrong about the Wii's userbase? What are they wrong about?

There are countless news articles about dev's saying they dont wanna develop for the wii because its a toy, its a fad and the userbase is nothing but kids... well this poll was to see how it staked up to the user base of the HD consoles combined... and since this site has (i wanna say educated about games) crowd i figgured its the perfect place :)

 

 

Gotcha

 

It does show that they are right in a way though doesn't it (obviously they aren't all that right since Nintendo is making record profits and developers are dropping like flies all over the place)? It shows that though most "hardcores" have a Wii a big chunk of them own a HD console. So why go into the expense of making and releasing a different Dead Rising 2 (for example) on Wii (different because you can't just simply port from PS360PC to Wii) when most of the Wii owners that would be interested in this game would probably pick it up on a HD system instead? Plus there is still a significant group that don't own a Wii at all.

 

 

 



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antfromtashkent on 10 February 2009
tuoyo said:
Euphoria14 said:
antfromtashkent said:
Euphoria14 said:
Still confused about one thing however.

From this poll how can we come to the conclusion that devs are wrong about the Wii's userbase? What are they wrong about?

There are countless news articles about dev's saying they dont wanna develop for the wii because its a toy, its a fad and the userbase is nothing but kids... well this poll was to see how it staked up to the user base of the HD consoles combined... and since this site has (i wanna say educated about games) crowd i figgured its the perfect place :)

 

 

Gotcha

 

It does show that they are right in a way though doesn't it (obviously they aren't all that right since Nintendo is making record profits and developers are dropping like flies all over the place)? It shows that though most "hardcores" have a Wii a big chunk of them own a HD console. So why go into the expense of making and releasing a different Dead Rising 2 (for example) on Wii (different because you can't just simply port from PS360PC to Wii) when most of the Wii owners that would be interested in this game would probably pick it up on a HD system instead? Plus there is still a significant group that don't own a Wii at all.

 

 

 

More people own the wii than eather of the HD consoles... and im not talking about port... the wii has so much potential for games posibilites its mind boggaling... and yet the dev's are saying that its a gimick... Im not saying make a port im saying make an original game for god sakes!

 



megaman79 on 10 February 2009

3rd Parties are fu-n retarded. Pretty simple, why else are they remaking everything?

Even EA is learning, well actually there making more remakes. lol



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

JHawkNH on 10 February 2009
Euphoria14 said:
Hehe... now ask which one these users play more.

 

 That's easy, I play the Wii a whole lot more then my HD console.

I actually haven't played anything on my HD Console since Eternal Sonata.