By now I'm sure many Wii owners have had a chance to play MW2 on HD or PC. I'm one of them. Looking back I remember hearing something from IW about how the Wii simply couldn't handle MW2 (despite all the exisiting COD's on Wii). After beating the game and having a great time doing it I'm a little confused. Nothing about this game is significantly more "epic" than Reflex (4) or W@W. Sure it looks great, and that would have to be toned down for Wii. But there seems to be no reason to have not dropped this on Wii. For once I'm gonna hop in the devs are lazy camp on this one. Who wants to bet those "twits" at Treyarch who always get shit are somehow able to do what IW wasn't in about 12 months?

Unrelated: the DC and especially Whitehouse levels really reminded me of the Conduit done right. Oh an Fallout 3.

I haven't played MW2, but they also said that the original game couldn't be done on the Wii at first.

This is quite a popular comment, but I'm not sure it's always true. In quite a lot of games, the way you actually play isn't that great, yet the game overall is fantastic.

One of the better examples (in the Nintendo game category at least, Nintendo hasn't made many games with bad gameplay), might be OoT today. The fighting is actually rather dull by today's standards, or even the standards of late 5th gen. The analog stick wasn't as good as later games were, and overall, the gameplay wasn't that great. Still, that didn't keep it from still being a great game 3-4 years (or 10) after its release.

It was outclassed from a gameplay perspective, yet it was better than the other games. The gameplay wasn't that most important reason as to why the game was so brilliant.

Edit: Part of my post seems to have been cut off.

Another example is Okami, which had a lot of the same as OoT. The painting wasn't that great, nor was the fighting. All in all, "atmosphere" is often more important than gameplay.

anything is possible if people put hteir minds to it.

When computers had 16KB of RAM people were forced to be smarter programmers and do things more efficiently.

ATM they are at a stage where the HD consoles have so much to work with they don't need to optimise it, meaning quicker production time.

If they were to do it on gamecube alot of optimising would need to be done, and dare I say it IW probably would do a better job at porting the game than Treyarch but they just don't want to develope for the Wii because it isn't cool.

I think IW didn't want the presentation to be 'compromised'. Of course, that word is pretty subjective.

I believe IW simply has a different motto than the Treyarch guys. IW seems to be a tad haughty to me.....

Of course they could do it, they could have used an older engine and made some alterations but it could be done on Wii

From what i've seen of friends playing it, it would lose some of the immersive stuff (like the cool visual effect of guiding missiles in to the target), and possibly lose some scope, but no, it's not impossible

But then again, what i just said is true for pretty much every PS360 game.

any game is possible on the wii. even crysis can be on the wii if they downgrade its graphics (alot of course) and use a good engine the wii has. But I think they mean that its impossible for them to make it on the wii if they use the same engine the ps3/xbox360 had.