Wanted dev praises PS3/360, Wii is a "****ing Genesis"

 Peter Wanat, game designer behind Scarface, Chronicles of Riddick, and the upcoming Wanted: Weapons of Fate, recently spoke out about designing Wii games in comparison to the 360 and PS3.  Wanat said it was incredibly hard to make a profit on the Wii, and that only Nintendo and UbiSoft, with their Petz line up, can make a profit on the Wii.  If developers spend more than $300-$500K on Wii development, they will not see any returns because of how bad 3rd party Wii games sell.  Wii players are "little kids and old people" and "hardcore Nintendo fanboys" that enjoy games with "crappy graphics and basic control play".

Wanat explains that because PS3/XBox 360/PC games can all share platforms, profits lie there, as not only is it all contained in one development cycle, but the user base of those consoles are hardcore gamers who are more willing to buy games.  In order to develop a Wii port of game with the other 3 platforms, it needs to be designed as "less than a PS2 game". 

Wanat even went on to say the Wii was comparable to a "****ing [Sega] Genesis" compared to the PS3/360.

Some particularly charged accounts from the game developer, but as someone who as developed a Wii game, are there some truths there?  What do you think?  Wanat's Wanted: Weapons of Fate is due out next week for, you guessed it, the PS3, XBox 360, and PC.

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SO.....ANGRY DEV afraid of NOT making a profit on PS360 with Wanted (which may be mediocre)

OR....the BITTER truth?

what do you think

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Already posted. 10 pages of anger and counting.

I hope Wanted flops for these stupid comments,but lookin at the demo i might not have to pray TOO hard....

Wii players are "little kids and old people" and "hardcore Nintendo fanboys" that enjoy games with "crappy graphics and basic control play".

Quote of the century

I agree.

Wii players are little kids and women.

Look at successful Wii games and judge for yourself. So the Wii is about as powerful as the original X-Box- Is this news or somthing? He has a point though a developer can make a game with pretty high end graphics and know he can have it on PS360.

The Wii shares more titles with Gamecube and PS2 then PS360 there's a reason for that. And so long as Wii owners continue to not support quality titles like Madworld and No More Heros, you can expect the trend to continue.

And I am one fine woman.

pix?

Carl2291 said: Wii players are "little kids and old people" and "hardcore Nintendo fanboys" that enjoy games with "crappy graphics and basic control play". Quote of the century

I prefer "Nintendo found their little mass-market niche".

Just listen to the podcast/video, the guy is extremely bitter towards Nintendo, and you can tell by the way he talks about how Nintendo was doing last generation.

I'm looking at "Showed up to work drunk."

Cause statements like that are like... career self destructive. Nobody is going to want to work with someone who talks like that.

I mean people put up with people like Jaffe and Cliffy B because they actually have very successful franchises behind it...

while this guy is raising asshat status to a whole new level with a whole lot of nothing to bring with it.