Developers turning to Wii, the Wrong Way.

Well you can't blame them...Nintendo's games will be the big hits on Nintendo's consoles. It's really hard for 3rd parties to do well.

Zelda and Metroid Prime come out then 2 months later Super Mario Galaxy then 3 months later Super Smash Brawl...a teen buys Zelda then saves up to buy Mario then saves up to buy Super Smash Bros. He also has to buy FFIII and Zelda on the DS. 3rd parties usually do no make a lot of money on Nintendo's consoles.

( Edited on 06.08.2006 05:03 by tiamat1990 )

3rd parties usually do no make a lot of money on Nintendo's consoles.

It's not impossible to match the level of quality of a Nintendo game, and when they do, the game should sell well. Would you rather Nintendo were like Sony and Microsoft, churning out

*This post is in reply to Soundworks' original post.*

Soundworks, I agree with you in many ways. I am tired of seeing remakes and continuous redesigns for the games that we've loved--the Marios, Sonics, Tekkens, Donkey Kongs, and more. This has essentially made gaming consoles boring, at times. The 1990s consoles that introduced us to Mario, Donkey Kong, Tekken, Ridge Racers, and more were original. The developers were full of ideas. Now, they are simply buying the rights from the creator to develop the same game again (a la New Super Mario Brothers [SMB+enhanced color+enhanced performance+a few new features=NSMB]). The Wii will need original games like the DS is receiving to become successful. With games like Brain Age, Pheonix Wright, and Nintendogs--Nintendo has already begun the next-generation of gaming. This generation will see remakes in the next gen, and so forth. The Wii will need creative games as the months pass by.

I think that Nintendo is purposely producing older titles to attract more people--they know what to expect so there is no second-guessing. People just don't buy a console because of its features and capabilities. They buy it based on the games that it has to offer. Sure, Zelda and Super Monkey Ball might never get un-entertaining. But, it is true that newer games will be needed.

*is thinking about mentioning this*

It's a shame the lesson hasn't stayed...

HazukiSan said:
I meant will have, of course I meant will have...I dont have a delorian parked outside....

Soundworks said:

3rd parties usually do no make a lot of money on Nintendos consoles.

It's not impossible to match the level of quality of a Nintendo game, and when they do, the game should sell well. Would you rather Nintendo were like Sony and Microsoft, churning out

O.O I'm pretty sure it sold more on the GC than it did on the PS2. PS2 owners were probably too busy playing 50 Cent and GTA to get any good games...

Like soul calibur 2. Sold better on GC than XBox or PS2

knighty said:
Like soul calibur 2. Sold better on GC than XBox or PS2

And the GC version was suprior in terms of controls and the extra character

I believe SCII sold more because of a certain... extra character?

Plus, as usual, PS2 owners were busy buying terrible terrible games...

Not to mention plastation 2 had an ambundance of fighting games while gamecube was starved, with no decent traditional fighting game available.

Z said:
I believe SCII sold more because of a certain... extra character?

Necrid!

Nah, Link was fucking badass in SC2. Really suited the game. Nothing beat slamming an arrow into Maxi when he was fannying around with his nunchuk.

I thought Link was a bit of a shite character... Still better than the alternatives though, and he still LOOKs god

Link is alright, I used him at first for obvious reasons. But I much prefer Talim. Ivy is my best though, she's so good and fun to use too. Owns noobs quite soundly.

Yoshimitsu FTW!!!1 I always found Talim to be completely useless... One of those characters that I hate to play against, but can't seem to actually get any good with (Like Shiek in SSB:M). In the end I never bothered with more than one character since there's so many moves to learn... Plus if you ever need to use anyone else you can pretty much just button bash and win anyway >_>