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Dazkarieh on 06 April 2009
Esa-Petteri said:

Now that is funny. How about newest cod? It sold like... 10 times as much on dual analog than on wiimote. Of course you can always use the excuse of game being gimped because the wii versions will never be identical to PS3/360 versions.

 

Easy... shortages. The game is still hard to find, at least in Europe. Even in online retailers it's hard.



     

 

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kylohk on 06 April 2009

^Well, that guy has admitted on his "wall" that he argues for the sake of arguing.

Either way, it's odd while games must be compared across all platforms all the time. It's better if all discussions on exclusives take place as if everyone only owns one console.



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jlauro on 06 April 2009
Esa-Petteri said:
jlauro said:

 

Name one FPS that came out at the same time for both consoles with dual analog and wiimote and isn't gimped on the Wii version.  Considering there isn't such a game to make a comparison, I say....

wiimote > dual analog according to paying customers.  They are just waiting for such games.

 

Now that is funny. How about newest cod? It sold like... 10 times as much on dual analog than on wiimote. Of course you can always use the excuse of game being gimped because the wii versions will never be identical to PS3/360 versions.

 

 

It did not come out at the same time and it is gimped in laking some multiplayer modes.  Not complaining about differences in graphics.



Cthulhu on 06 April 2009
Esa-Petteri said:
hsrob said:
By that same logic Wiifit is better than Halo 3.

Isn't that what people here are trying to say? :O

 

WiiSports is the best. 40+million people bought it

 



kylohk on 06 April 2009

^Yeah, a better gauge would be for all versions have the same features, although different graphics (such as COD 3?). Then it would be fair.



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Esa-Petteri on 06 April 2009
jlauro said:
Esa-Petteri said:
jlauro said:

 

Name one FPS that came out at the same time for both consoles with dual analog and wiimote and isn't gimped on the Wii version.  Considering there isn't such a game to make a comparison, I say....

wiimote > dual analog according to paying customers.  They are just waiting for such games.

 

Now that is funny. How about newest cod? It sold like... 10 times as much on dual analog than on wiimote. Of course you can always use the excuse of game being gimped because the wii versions will never be identical to PS3/360 versions.

 

 

It did not come out at the same time and it is gimped in laking some multiplayer modes.  Not complaining about differences in graphics.

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=23991

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=23992

Really?

 



EPP on 06 April 2009
Esa-Petteri said:
jlauro said:
Esa-Petteri said:
jlauro said:

 

Name one FPS that came out at the same time for both consoles with dual analog and wiimote and isn't gimped on the Wii version.  Considering there isn't such a game to make a comparison, I say....

wiimote > dual analog according to paying customers.  They are just waiting for such games.

 

Now that is funny. How about newest cod? It sold like... 10 times as much on dual analog than on wiimote. Of course you can always use the excuse of game being gimped because the wii versions will never be identical to PS3/360 versions.

 

 

It did not come out at the same time and it is gimped in laking some multiplayer modes.  Not complaining about differences in graphics.

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=23991

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=23992

Really?

 

 

Really? Uh.. yeah.I've got the game and  I'm still wondering how this game scored that high. It's a decent to good game, but not a "very" good one.

I guess it just benefited from beeing the first halfway serious attempt on a Wii FPS.

 



frybread on 06 April 2009

I was just listening to the IGN podcast, one of the guys said that he wishes he could play 360 FPS games with the Wiimote, because he'd destroy all the dual analog users.



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griffinA on 06 April 2009

OMG a thread with Esa-petteri AND mjc2021 in it? What did you guys do to deserve this, praise the wii or something?



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bdbdbd on 06 April 2009

The pretty obvious reason for people wanting this game is its controls.
But i don't think this game is intented to be a system seller, it most likely tries to take advantage of the existing market on the Wii that is badly catered at the moment. It's just a Wii game for Wii owners, nothing more. So in that sense, the question in the OP is rather ridiculous.

Considering FPS is a genre that is being driven forward by the visual performance of the game, Conduit is going for an uphill battle because of Wiis relatively limited visual abilities, but consider the sales of other games alike on Wii, i think expecting sales of one million lifetime is pretty fair. If the game delivers, two million sales aren't out of reach.

There's also few things that need to be taken into consideration; The Conduit was originally started because HVS had already a tech for it, that would be obsolete otherwise. The engine behind The Conduit, Quantum 3, is propably hoped to get into distribution (when Conduit is supposed show what the engine can do, it's the same thing as it is with Unreal Tournament, a tech demo in its basis). The devs have taken the way of fixing the issues they see in other shooters, but this may turn out to be negative just as well, since too much options and "too perfectected" may be "too much" for the market. Of course, what HVS have done, looks promising, but how it turns out in practice is a different matter.



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