Marvelous Entertainment backed the Wii in a big way with new series like Little King’s Story, No More Heroes, Arc Rise Fantasia, and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. However, sales of these games in Japan (Little King’s Story excluded, of course, since it’s only out in Europe) haven’t been stellar.

In a financial presentation Marvelous has a new plan for their rich library of properties. First, is moving into multi-platform PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 development. I can confirm that Rainy Woods, Marvelous’ first title specifically made for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, is still in development. Their other strategy is porting some of their Wii titles to the PS3 and Xbox 360. 

Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia aren’t heavy on motion control so I imagine these would be prime candidates to port. I’d welcome ports of either of these games too since more people would get to play them.

Enough about me. Which Marvelous games would you like to see on high definition consoles? I’ll start counting the votes for No More Heroes and No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle…

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/07/02/marvelous-considering-wii-to-playstation-3xbox-360-ports/

Sounds good those games might actually do better on the HD consoles then on the Wii 

I was really psyched about Rainy Woods until I heard they were redeveloping it to make it less of a shameless Twin Peaks ripoff.

Would pick up Arc Rise Fantasia if it ever got to HD consoles. Looks pretty nice.

*sigh*

Just another case of one piece of news coming out, then everyone else jumping on it like wildfire. How well would these ports fare anyways? Little King's Story would definitely bomb....again if ported to an HD console, so there is no point in that. Muramasa would also do the same.

These titles may find some type of audience on the PS3, but the 360 owners won't even give these things a glance, I know that for a fact. Plus, the idea of a port would make these games sell even worse (i.e. Bioshock).

Wouldn't the sprites in Muramasa have to be redrawn to get them to be HD? I just don't see Vanillaware putting in the work.

Also correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be up to the development team whether they're going to port a Wii game and not up to Marvelous?

Probably not.

“When we draw the graphics, we create them in high resolution from the beginning, and then shrink them down to fit the available memory when we convert them into game data.”

I thought maybe the PSP

But I'd like to see them make games uniquely for the wii

Cool. Smart move by them in that case. If it gets ported to the HD consoles, I'll double dip just for the enhanced graphics.

Muramasa wuld be very nice to get for the X360.

But would they sell it for $60 or bargain price?

$60, and you'll pay up Slimebeast!