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11/25/09
If EA made well developed, compelling games I think they could sell. Capcom seems to be doing well on Wii, so it can be done.
11/25/09
Also now it makes sense that most ips that they said they were cancelling were just ips for the Wii. (considering they seem to have kept the project a and x or whatever they were called from pandemic).
Still how bad was that new NFS for the wii (for anyone who's played it)? I mean I would've stated how good was it but it looked pretty bad from the videos that I saw.
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Majority of Wii owners, people who bought a Wii as their first console since birth cuz it's the hip thing to own and dare call themselves "gamers"? They don't play Mario Galaxy, they don't own games other Wii Sports and Raving Rabbids, they play them for half an hour on parties.
11/25/09
The SD console is not suitable in this generation. It works great with casuals but not with hardcore gamers.
Wii is a gimmick and casuals love gimmicks. At least nintendo has found a way to sell hardware but not software.
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And any development house making less games for less platforms is NEVER good. How soon til all of those developers are out on their ass? Disturbance in the workforce anyone?
I'm not a big fan of the handheld platforms, but I would never say that just because I don't like them or play them that they have any less validity in the games marketplace.
@Gnarkiller: The few people you know who owns Wiis that sit in the corner and collect dust are not the Wii owners you will meet here. They are a small minority of the people I know, but then I tend to hang out with gamers. Trendy, latest-thing people are rarely serious gamers, and as such, shouldn't really be representative of what the average Wii user is like.
11/25/09
I personally own one due to it being in my price range at launch and the games being a shade cheaper. But to be honest I have tried really hard to like it but it's hard when my two favourite games for the thing are old ports i.e. Resident evil 4 and archives. As fun as house of dead and umbrella chronicles are they are not classics. Then after that you're talking a couple of Nintendo games (which is irrelevant to 3rd party devs) and old games on the VC which are a blast but hardly the basis for a current console.
and to prove I am not some Nintendo hater I love the DS and loved the NES and SNES.
11/25/09
It's when someone takes the attitude that since they don't like it, then the platform should just go away and die, or people shouldn't develop for it anymore that is retarded.
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Developers that are with the Wii since the beginning are better prepared to deal with Natal and the PS3 wand.
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26 people who prefer Mario over violence? Do you live in Utah?
Just because they're "too young to play MW2" hasn't stopped kids up to this point.
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And some kids DO play MW, but the kids I'm speaking about don't. They simply aren't interested in it. They'd rather kill their friends with a turtleshell then with an AK-47.
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The fact that it's been on sale for a while now should tell you all you need to know.
11/25/09
I am really dissapointed when finding out the Xbox and PS2 version of The Sims 2 removed one of my favourite features of the PC version: genetics that get passed to the sims' children. I love making the ugliest couple possible than seeing how their baby grow up to look. The have him/her have a kid with an alien...
11/25/09
...come to think of it, why hasn't there been a Sims title on there that aren't some crappy side games and a fairly-decent AniCross knock-off?
11/25/09
The Sims 2, yes, but the load time is already horrible on the PC version, even on my dual-core with 2 GB RAM (far above the recommended system when it was first released).
As for The Sims 3, while it can run on an Intel graphics chip, the fact that the entire game is played on one giant seamless map can be a problem.
#speakup
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#speakup
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Why not try a big, blockbuster-type title on the Wii? Maybe even with an equally big, blockbuster-type marketing campaign? I mean, Nintendo can do it.
...naw, that'll be like dividing by zero.
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Here's another one.
When a good unique game does come out for the Wii, no one buys them.
True Story.
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*Looks over at copy of Killer 7, No More Heroes*
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But a title like NMH would sell "10x" more on PS3/360? I guess we'll find out next year.
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Sounds like EVERY SINGLE Wii OWNER HERE.
Face it. It's either Nintendo or nothing.
The only thing your "ignorant gamers" are buying are all these rhythm games/fitness titles.
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Pretty simple formula. Too bad more companies don't get that.
11/25/09
Core gamers who own the Wii are also usually Nintendo fans, and the good games they buy are more likely to be 1st-party titles.
11/25/09
the wii is embarrassing. It's controls are shit for most non-1st party games. Even the waggle in the 1st party games is semi-lame for the most part. The only good titles for the most part are made by Nintendo. The other awesome games didn't sell well, which proves the install base for the Wii is non-existent. It doesn't have an install base - it has a base of people who bought something they think is awesome, and only play it for wii sports.
No More Heroes, Okami, and games like that didn't sell well, and if you ask me, they're ART.
Unfortunately, you can get games of that caliber almost on a consistent basis with the PS3/Xbox. Hell, if I was a developer I wouldn't waste a cent developing on the wii. The future of gaming lies in the other consoles. You can do SO MUCH MORE on EVERY other system than you can with the wii. Hell, the wii won't even remember my credit card number. how much of a child do they think I am?!
11/25/09
There's a reason why Sony and MS try to satisfy a more hardcore crowd: they're the ones that actually buy all the games.
Also, Nintendo has a real problem in that they're not hooking in new players, ie. kids. I would be surprised if the people buying all the Mario and Zelda games these days weren't in their 30's. What does Nintendo have that an average young teenager who didn't grow up on Mario is going to think of as cool? It would actually surprise me if Sony's and MS's gamers weren't *younger* than Nintendo's, which means they're going to stick around buying games longer before their life gets too busy or they get old and jaded and decide modern games all suck.
11/25/09
@karoc: The future isn't motion controls. There are maybe a HANDFUL of games that utilize motion control reasonably well, and now nintendo wants to charge me 20 more dollars to make the Wii do what it was supposed to do at launch! And for the record, I've already stated this - but I own all the consoles. I'm a gamer. Every great game on the Wii I have. Same with other systems. And yes, Okami sold more on the wii - yet not enough apparently, because one of the best gaming experiences ever is being missed by the majority of the people who own a wii - because they're not gamers. They're people that want to play Wii Sports. hell, when I go to my mother's place for a daytrip, she always always always makes me bring out wii sports, and nothing else. The wii going HD isn't the solution, as graphics have little to do with it. the wii getting hardware to make great games on a consistent basis without having to hold the developers hands is. Apparently the only people capable of making a great video game on ANY Nintendo system has always been pretty much only Nintendo.. (though I will say this, if they'd port RE5 to the Wii, I'd be happy with that. I LOVE some of the games on the wii, don't get me wrong. No need to take this all personal. ... but my point right here is that RE4 ported on the Wii was one of the best gaming experiences ever. Metroid Prime sucked.)
Some art-quality games on the 360/ps3? You don't know of any? Do you even own the systems??
#speakup
11/24/09
This is what you get for not picking up Deadspace Extraction, people who haven't had a chance to try it NEED to get it now!
11/24/09
Their 1st party softwares are too good that the customers felt that they should only by 1st-party softwares and thus couldn't care less about 3rd parties anymore.
Yeah I know it's not their fault.
Their hardwares (Wii and Mac) may be selling like crazy but if they are the only one who can produce softwares that sell on their own machines, eventually nobody will make a software for them.
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Without them we're going to be over-run with plastics and Guitar Heroes from Activision.
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