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thekitchensink on 04 March 2009

Codemasters wants 'gamer's games' on Wii, finds other publisher strategies 'bewildering'

by Alexander Sliwinski { Mar 4th 2009 at 1:58PM } 


Codemasters has a couple new execs talking about the publisher's "cautious strategy" on the Wii -- and, by "cautious," they mean making titles that appeal to core gamers. UK General Manager Jeremy Wigmore and Marketing VP Alex Bertie tell MCV that Codemasters "can't ignore Wii," despite the publisher's emphasis on next-gen titles. 

Bertie finds it "bewildering" to see what other companies are doing with Nintendo's juggernaut. He expresses that Codies isn't going to make "cheap, crappy ports" and expects the company to produce "gamer's games." Wigmore believes that other publishers constantly going to retail with a "mass-market product" only makes those games become "white noise." It'll be interesting to see if Codemasters retains its thinking about Wii after Overlord: Dark Legend releases in a few months and the publisher starts seeing sales figures.

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Not that this is a particularly shocking revelation, but I completely share his view.  I mean, with all the crap software the system gets, why have few realized until recently that they can be successful if THEY are the trendsetters?



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woopah on 04 March 2009

didn't code masters pick up a lot of ex free radical devs?

well well just have to see how the game plays but so far looks promising. hopofully it sells well and isnt released too close to the conduit



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wfz on 04 March 2009

Off topic, but you realize that a miniature version of your icon is completely blotting out Mario's eyes in your signature, right? It just looks weird. :P

I don't know this company very well, but I like what they have to say! What games do they have coming up on the Wii besides Overlord?



One_touch_KO on 04 March 2009

Bring 'em on!!!!!



thekitchensink on 04 March 2009
wfz said:
Off topic, but you realize that a miniature version of your icon is completely blotting out Mario's eyes in your signature, right? It just looks weird. :P

I don't know this company very well, but I like what they have to say! What games do they have coming up on the Wii besides Overlord?

 

Like Rol said, they have several racing games in development, in addition to Overlord.

 

And whaddya talking about?  You can DEFINITELY see his eyes... somewhere...



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mike_intellivision on 04 March 2009
thekitchensink reported that Joystiq said:

 It'll be interesting to see if Codemasters retains its thinking about Wii after Overlord: Dark Legend releases in a few months and the publisher starts seeing sales figures.

Funny how Joystiq is already predicting the game will fail to sell.



      


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Mr Khan on 04 March 2009
mike_intellivision said:
thekitchensink reported that Joystiq said:

 It'll be interesting to see if Codemasters retains its thinking about Wii after Overlord: Dark Legend releases in a few months and the publisher starts seeing sales figures.

Funny how Joystiq is already predicting the game will fail to sell.

This is what joystiq does, little jabs like this are customary. This issue was by Swilinski, who isn't that bad about things, James Ransom-Wiley, however, is intolerable in his open contempt for Wii, as is Jem Alexander (though she is a bit more understandeable, since she used to work for the PlayStation fanboys before the merger)



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theRepublic on 04 March 2009

Excellent.

I was already looking forward to Overlord: Dark Legend. Now I'm going to make sure that I pick it up soon after release.



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Cheebee on 04 March 2009

'Gamer's games' or 'hardcore' games don't equal good games. So no developer should make those kind of games just for the sake of making those kind of games. Just make good games and we'll all be happy. :)



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a3hmax on 04 March 2009

I will take Overlord and Dirt 2 as their Word. I like a lot the ovelord look and gameplay, and Dirt is a good game, but never seen on Wii. Now as an aditional quality promise, we haven´t PS2 versions, and that´s means they don´t make any bad port, and more dedication to Wii version.



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