Industry News | Midway Blames Wii Shortages

By Jorge Ba-oh 02.11.2007 25

Midway recently revealed that shortages in hardware for Nintendo's ever-popular Wii has had an affected the company's support for the platform.

During a conference call with the release of Midway's Q3 results, Miguel Iribarren, vice president of publishing, commented on the Wii's support.

"The demand for Wii product has put a pretty big strain on Nintendo's production capacity, and that has in turn, for us, turned into longer lead times for some of our Wii products And that, during the holidays - given product coming out in a short timeframe - has resulted, for us, in reduced ability to get product to shelves."

Perhaps if the products weren't crap ports...

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Phoenom is offline. Phoenom 02.11.2007#1

I second that. The best they've given us is MK. Armegeddon.Smilie

 
Satoshi is offline. Satoshi 02.11.2007#2

Perhaps if the products weren't crap ports...

Smilie
So true.

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J Tangle is offline. J Tangle 02.11.2007#3

Those lazy bastards why are they blaming nintendo for their own rushed out shit ports.

 
Zero is offline. Zero 02.11.2007#4

OMG DUDE YOU OWN!!! "Perhaps if the products weren't crap ports...." your my hero <3

 
Jump_button is offline. Jump_button 02.11.2007#5

<_< maybe if they was was some good it sell look at res evil 4 lol they cant blame Big N

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Raff is offline. Raff 02.11.2007#6

Just think of all the people queuing up to buy a Wii with the latest Mortal Combat this christmas. The disappointment, the tears, the domestic violence.

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
 
JustJoe is offline. JustJoe 02.11.2007#7

Support, what support? A half-assed port of Mortal Kombat, wow great job Midway, bravo.

( Edited on 02.11.2007 19:51 by JustJoe )

 
jb is offline. jb 02.11.2007#8

It just had to be said - really. Other devs and Nintendo are really pushing the boat to create some original and decent looking titles.

What do we get?

Some lazy worse-than-DS Crusin' and some party game not even your grandma would buy you for Christmas.

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Jump_button is offline. Jump_button 02.11.2007#9

iam telling u copcom and Big N and Sega are the only one really doing a good job on games for wii right now

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Birdo Is A Tranny is offline. Birdo Is A Tranny 02.11.2007#10

excuses excuses im sick off it at least have a genuine excuse midway yere so sad

 
Raff is offline. Raff 02.11.2007#11

Jump_button said:
iam telling u copcom and Big N and Sega are the only one really doing a good job on games for wii right now

And Konami.

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
 
charwiimario is offline. charwiimario 02.11.2007#12

I can't believe that's the best excuse they could come up with... Sad, so sad...

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Agul is offline. Agul 02.11.2007#13

So, let me get this straight:

1) Midway's complaining that Nintendo has made such an awesome new console and people are so rabid to get their grubby mits on one that Nintendo is having serious problems supplying their insatiable demand (despite them ramping up production cosiderably)...

2) and gamers haven't bought into their half-assed ports of last gen-games.

So they're cutting back support for the hottest game console on the market because of this? This is insanity. Shame on you Midway. Dumbasses.

The scariest part about this, is how many third parties are doing this type of crap with Wii. I'm so tired of getting pissed with these 3rd party companies and their insane decisions. *sigh*

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Cheesing It Up is offline. Cheesing It Up 02.11.2007#14


So they're cutting back support for the hottest game console on the market because of this? This is insanity. Shame on you Midway. Dumbasses.

Exactly. "Uhh, this console is a little TOO popular, maybe we should release less games for it" Smilie

( Edited on 02.11.2007 23:55 by Smells like cheese )

 
setupweasel is offline. setupweasel 03.11.2007#15

don't forget the fact that Wii has the greatest marketshare this generation. Morons work at Midway.


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Mandown is offline. Mandown 03.11.2007#16

Shame, I was looking forward to Blacksite 51 Wii.

 
JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 03.11.2007#17

Smilie shortages? Yeah, it's a bit of a problem, but considering Wii is already the most popular console in this gen's console war (as far as sales go at least...) it's probably more to do with the fact that the only game Miday's done for it is an effortless port of a PS2 game. Woohoo. Smilie

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Raff is offline. Raff 03.11.2007#18

Linkyshinks said:
Shame, I was looking forward to Blacksite 51 Wii.

Be realistic mate. They wouldn't have bothered rebuilding a UE3 game for the Wii, even if they were supporting it more strongly.


Midway lol

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
 
raindog469 is offline. raindog469 03.11.2007#19

This definitely has the smell of "shareholder mollification" about it.

But I want a brand new Wii update of Marble Madness, already. Get on it, Midway.

 
mooojc is offline. mooojc 03.11.2007#20

Midway makes me laugh.

 
jb is offline. jb 03.11.2007#21

They should stop making 4/5 shitty ports/party games/old MK builds and if they dedicate all their resources from these 4/5 games into one decent, ground-up Wii game I'm sure they'll be raking it in.

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raindog469 is offline. raindog469 03.11.2007#22

You say that like Midway still has people who can make original games.

 
Dritttoolegit is offline. Dritttoolegit 03.11.2007#23

Less support from Midway? I see nothing to shed tears over...


 
tismatron is offline. tismatron 04.11.2007#24

wtf the wii is still OUTSELLING everything else? how is this logical, why dont you just not mke games on any platform? cos that ps3 sure aint sellign well...that would be better

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 05.11.2007#25

The scariest part about this, is how many third parties are doing this type of crap with Wii. I'm so tired of getting pissed with these 3rd party companies and their insane decisions. *sigh*

that was the death of Gamecube as well... Nintendo made too good a game to not bust 3rd parties their lazy crap support.
I own one Midway-game. Gauntlet Legends on N64. And that was a lazy port of the Dreamcast one, which was an 1:1 port from arcade. Only with better graphics then N64.

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 

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