Marcus;260491 said:
Look at every Nintendo game on the Wii. You have a bunch of mini-games (TECH DEMOS LOL) and a Wario and Paper Mario game that completely lack the charm of their predecessors.
Yes, and then SSBB, No More Heroes, MP3, etc. are all coming out soon... I mean, the 360 never took a year to get its big games... WAIT A MINUTE!
But let's look at most Wii games in general. Call of Duty 3 looks like a Nintendo 64 game and plays as chunky as one. They tried to throw in some wiimote effects like paddling and fighting, but it's still pretty ridiculous. Red Steel is another game with bad visuals and poor textures and DISAPPEARING BODIES. I'm sorry, but bodies in Half-Life didn't even disappear. I can't comment on the horrible textures in Twilight Princess because the game was originally designed for the gamecube, but have you found it strange that Resident Evil 4 on the Wii plays noticeably worse than the original gamecube version??
Other then the fact that those are either 3rd party or originally GCN games, I have no counterpoint with this. I was somewhat dissapointed with the cheap porting of LoZ.
The wii's technology is ridiculous. So what, it can emulate a bunch of consoles perfectly but who the fuck cares when the only virtual arcade games being released have been played to death before? How about some new releases that most people haven't played like ANY OF THE MOTHER SERIES or getting Enix to donate Terranigma or something. Everyone's played Super Metroid and Mario Kart... why do I want to spend money playing them again?
I agree here... But some people havn't played Super Metroid(me, I know, please stop glaring), and other people may not have their old systems/don't want to use an emu. Of course, for the most part, the VC pickings aren't as good as they should be.
The Wii has dug itself into a corner. Nintendo's dev kits aren't acessible enough to allow smaller companies to make cost effective games and big developers will want to focus their efforts on greater, more powerful projects. Will you ever see Bioshock on the Wii? Mass Effect? Grand Theft Auto IV? Capcom has already stated that they're 99% certain they won't be able to effectively develop Resident Evil 5 on the Wii.
If Bioshock and Mass Effect are exclusives, then why can't Nintendo have their own exclusives. Will you ever see SSBB on the 360? No More heroes on the PS3? No. Each console has their own exclusives.
Nintendo is focusing on the casual gamers, pure and simple. They've alienated other developers looking to make bigger, better games. By focusing on cheap hardware, they're marketing for gamers on the cheap or people who don't care for bigger games. They're still selling ridiculous amounts of consoles, but that's because there's more people who play color matching games on their cell phones than people who play RPG epics on their consoles. Nintendo is marketing to that degree and players and until they offer some incentive to other developers, I doubt we'll be seeing any "new or innovative" games which is a shame because the Wii is capable of so much.
Every system has its droughts. The Wii, just like the 360, is having a bad first year. Things'll pick up after that. Especially with more exclusive titles in development then any other console. As for RPG epics, off the top of my head, you have FFCC: RoF(which from the trailer shown, looks pretty freaking cool, with the exception of the way the guy runs...), Dragon Quest Swords, FE10, and ToS2.
