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Xoj on 14 December 2009
Arius Dion said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
^ROFL, with the higher hardware, it would have cost more and had lower sales, so they still wouldn't dev for it


That's how I see it. When Nintendo went the powerful route with GC they were froze out. I don't think hardware limitiations is a legit excuse at this point. Especially since dev costs are so high in comparison to Wii dev costs and look at the money being lost by big name publishers even when their games do great sales numbers. That's scary..and dumb.

MM:Thanks:) it's been cool discussing this issue with you.

gamecube used propiertary format disc, it have far lower userbase than ps2

gamecube needed a DVD to get ports.

and also by the time was the only one using powerpc platform.

xbox didn't got many ports either

there is a difference being powerful and having enought to handle the games.

 

ps2 was not as powerful, but could handle RE 4 port just nicely



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Avinash_Tyagi on 14 December 2009

^Wii would still lose out, as devs would make only on PS3 and 360 and ignore the Wii even if Wii had more power, because its base would be much smaller than it is now



 

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GuyDuke on 16 December 2009
Arius Dion said:
guiduc said:
Arius Dion said:
How do you know they wouldn't? A game like RE4 that's been ported to everything from the PS2 to the iphone has sold more on Wii than on the original platform it was intended for (GC) GTA:CW? Look what that did on PSP and compare that to the DS version. MH3 in Japan only is nearing Million units sold that is a big name game and doing big name numbers. Userbase argument doesn't mean much at all because then you could start calling million selling games flops "compared to userbase"

All three games have provided profit and how many flops receive sequels? These are niche games (save for Conduit which is a mediocre game) Why should mediocrity sell like Halo? How did Wet sell?

I can easily flip the argument to only big name games sell on HD systems. Look at Blazblu sales. Big name games would and do sell fantastically on Wii, it just seldomly gets them.

Agreed.

It's pretty sure that a game like RE5 would sell on the Wii. There's many people who love Resident Evil on the Wii (more than a million bought Umbrella Chronicles)

Now that's the point. Poor Wii only get spinoffs. 

To sell on the Wii, two steps: 1) publicity, marketing      2) quality

Wii showed in the past that rather a quality game which has no marketing won't sell, and conversely like Conduit proved.

And Chinatown Wars didn't get publicity as GTA IV did. It sold well for a title that had no appealing publicity.

Here's the thing though. There's a double standard; A game that flops on Wii its Wii's fault, a game that flops on the HD systems its the games fault.

See the platform is never to blame. Chinatown Wars is a top down GTA the last top down GTA was GTA2 which was before GTA blew up. And the PSp sales show that its appeal isn't far reaching and in no way is comparable to their 3-d counterparts.

Exactly, Wii receives Spin-offs. Look at Bioshock, successful on 360 ported to PS3 and its sales aren't much to talk about. If Either HD console was treated like Wii the games would have a hard time selling as well. I'm sick of third parties putting shit on Wii's plate and calling it filet minion steak.

Dead Space underperformed on HD platforms so a Spin-off Rail shooter is supposed to sell millions of copies? The backlash on forums regarding EA's decision was humungus.

yeah, Dead Space is a good example. But they're making a sequel :l