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Forums - Nintendo - Will the Wii ever get a decent WRPG title?

Lolcislaw on 16 February 2009

WRPG's are a strong genre on the consoles with Xbox 360 seeing strong sales of such games like Fable, Mass Effect , Oblivion and Fallout 3 with last two appearing on the Playstation 3 as well.

I know that WRPG's were dominating on the PC's in the past but now they are as successful (or maybe even more succesful on the home consoles) when ported on those platforms.

As we know 3rd party support for the Wii increases every month with some good titles coming mainly from Japanese Devs, there are plenty of JRPG's for example coming this year (which i also like a lot). While Western support still could be much better, we see a signs of improvement(EA recent statements for example).

My question is that will the increased third party support on Nintendo console bring some Western RPG's on the console, a type of game completely absent from Wii library, do you think there is a chance ?

 

 



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Words Of Wisdom on 16 February 2009

No, it won't/there is no chance.



Riachu on 16 February 2009
Soriku said:
I don't see why not. HVS said they could do an RPG and Conduit looks nice.

That's generous of you to say especially since it is well known that you are indifferent(or downright hate) to shooters.

 



 

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Procrastinato on 16 February 2009

WRPGs will come to the Wii when/if it hits a minimum of 60% marketshare in Europe/America. Until then, they will stay on the HD consoles, because the Wii sales won't justify a Wii-based WRPG until then.



 

Naum on 16 February 2009

I hope not, every RPG for the Wii should be Turnbased



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Words Of Wisdom on 16 February 2009
Naum said:
I hope not, every RPG for the Wii should be Turnbased

Most non-Bethesda-made WRPGs have traditionally been turn/round-based.



emilie autumn on 16 February 2009

i don't like WRPGs but any good game be it or not is a always a good adition



 

Mr Khan on 16 February 2009

The best WRPG developers out there are also prominent members of that cadre of developers that both center their efforts on PC, and scorn the Wii

 

A WRPG could come, but the best probably never will



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Words Of Wisdom on 16 February 2009
Mr Khan said:

The best WRPG developers out there are also prominent members of that cadre of developers that both center their efforts on PC, and scorn the Wii

Well, Bioware is now a part of EA and neither "scorn the Wii" so it could conceivably make a WRPG for the Wii.  However, Bioware isn't a console game developer at heart and I think any titles they make will suffer for it and likely have superior PC versions.



griffinA on 16 February 2009

Not likely.

WRPGs are made by PC developers and as such, perfer power over market potential.

Also, as PC developers they are firmly in Microsoft's camp.

For now i'd say be happy with Monster Hunter 3. It's gameplay seems to be pretty similar to a WRPG and it will probably be the closest thing the wii gets to one.



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