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Originally posted by: Pittbboi I'm personally looking forward to DQ: Swords, but I doubt that it's going to lay down much hype in the States, where DQ has largely been an overlooked series.
I think Manhunt 2 WILL bring that hype in the states. Like I said, once a video hits with someone using a Wiimote and nunchuck to murder people, then the violent game crowd will go INSANE, and the violent gamer crowd is a large part of the US market.
And in the states, games which spur controversy outsell games like FF and MGS. All three of the next gen GTAs outsold even the highest selling FF and MGS games.
My guess is that Rockstar knows the GTA series has kinda seen its peak of controversy. How much further can they go? Also, there are a plethora of GTA clones out there.
Since they're a company that thrives on controversy, where can they go next? What can they do to one-up the stir that GTA3 created? How about twisting a knife into someone's back with a Wiimote or sawing someone's head off? How about crushing a skull with a nunchuck?
I think this will be their goal, and despite the media outcry, I expect the violent gamer crowd in the US to eat it right up.
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Again, I've never expected the wiimote to reach that level in four months. Never even implied that. But, in four months time we should have at least heard of third party games that WILL be using the wiimote to its potential in the future. Hell, we should have been hearing about that BEFORE the console even launched, but I can pardon third parties for that because the fault lies with Nintendo for not having their sh*t together and giving third parties the tools they need.
From everything I heard, it was an unwillingness to try new things which steered most 3rd parties away from the Wii. Ubisoft was the exception and the fact that they're now making money hand over fist is no doubt rallying many companies to offer Wii support.
But like I said, this stuff takes time, and again, your views on what "WILL be using the wiimote to its potential" are too subjective to quantify, really.
Godfather will use the pointer to aim, the Wiimote to reload, and a combination of the mote and chuck to perform all sorts of violent maneuvers, like beating people up, choking them and throwing them off buildings.
If I asked your average teenager, he'd say THAT is the full potential because it sells him most on a game.
So what would your definition of "full potential" be?
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Yeah, to the 360 and PC. I'm not pimping the PS3 here by using it as an example; whether or not these titles stay exclusive to PS3 is, unfortunately, of no consequence to me because they're definitely not being ported to the Wii (the Wii just couldn't handle them without serious, experience-compromising, downgrading). So either way I'd have to go elsewhere if I wanted to play them.
I have to disagree about experience compromising downgrading, but again, how is this Nintendo's fault? You're lamenting the fact that these franchises aren't on the Wii. Ok, but there's no one to blame for this except Square and Konami. Like I said, write them emails if you love these franchises so much.
Also, you might want to wait until these games are ACTUALLY out before you complain that the Wii has nothing to match them. We don't know what will happen between now and then.
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I only include Nintendo because yes, I feel that they could be doing a little more to attract third parties, but mostly I'm lamenting the lack of quality third party support. And it goes beyond my personal tastes. Where are the RPGs? Mature, epic platforms? Genres Nintendo STILL can drum up third party interest for.
The only other thing Nintendo could do to attract 3rd parties is start shelling out moneyhats.
Beyond that, they've given them a new, innovative control scheme, a console which is cheap and easy to develop for, spaced out releases of 1st party titles so as not to snuff 3rd party successes, NO requirements for HD content and a growing userbase for a console which they can't keep on the shelves fast enough.
Believe me when I say that the ball is in the court of 3rd parties and if they decide to not support the Wii, they'll be missing out, bigtime.
Topic: Wii Third Party Domination (Read 52889 times)
