Dallas News: Nintendo also to blame for poor quality Wii games |
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Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime recently placed blame on third-party devs for lack of quality games on the Wii.More specifically, he says that third-parties don't understand what gamers want - and what they want is games that perform well on other consoles. He says that third parties only "get it" when they give their "very best content" for the Wii.
In response to this, Victor Godinez of the Dallas Morning News says that Nintendo itself shares part of the blame as well. After all, it was their decision to come out with the least powerful of the three consoles in this generation. It's not like games are easy to downgrade:
Nintendo bears some responsibility here, as well. The Wii is the least powerful of the three current consoles, and you simply cannot easily duplicate a high-end Xbox 360 or PS3 game on the Wii.
[...] Nintendo chose to go down this path of less-powerful, lost-cost hardware, and one side effect of that decision is that some games simply cannot be ported over. So as much as developers do need to step up their efforts, Nintendo hasn't done them any favors.
So who is to blame for the Wii's deluge of games with poor quality, Nintendo or third-parties? Chicken and egg thing, really. The more important question is: should Nintendo implement stricter policies for quality?
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nintendo really dropped the ball this round i kinda prefer my gamecube over it the controls are kinda buggy.
Now ps3 is a really nice peice of hardware.
xbox30 is to but i beleive the wii isnt worth the plastic its made from.
Even in the handheld department psp is way better
Weaker hardware=weaker games.
Its not all the graphics dont get me wrong the Wii has some great games but they are far and few between.
As for your Weaker Hardware + Weaker games thats not true at all i have both a PSP and DS and well the DS has better games.
I got a 360 a few weeks back after being fed up with the Wii and the 60gb 360 cost me less then my Wii. Iv played a few games which are worth more then the whole Wii libary put together.
Nintendo also needs to add something called qulity control.
Sure the Wii may have outsold both 360 and PS3 but im sure more people are using their PS3s and 360 then people are using their Wiis.
If Nintendo pulls something like this again in the next gen well i hope they fail :)
They said it themselves : Nintendo cares about the QUANTITY of players, not about the quality (ie : loads of casual players bring more money than hardcore gamers...). So I would mainly blame nintendo for that situation. Yea, 3rd party devs make crappy games for the wii, but why not? If even nintendo does it, 3rd party devs can have their share of the cake too. So why would they bother making good games?
3rd party devs make crappy games on the Wii becuase the can. Why put more effort into something when you can put less effort and money into it and sell the same ammount of copys doesnt make sense from a business point of view. Since idiots that buy these games on the Wii can tell if its good or not and get fooled by the pretty cover. Just shows that the casual out number the hardcore on Wii.
On the 360 and PS3, developers need to try and put effort into a making good game otherwise it will not sell.
Uh, hello anyone seen the graphics for metroid 3 , mario galaxy or even the soon coming The Conduit. The makers of the conduit actually built their own engine for the wii and make it available to sell to other devs. And its amazing to say the least, definitely xbox 360 or ps3 worthy graphics/engine.
No doubt those are next gen graphics.
This guy wants to go on about how things cant be ported over, they can, just not as cheaply and the developers would like it too. And besides the developers pretty much develop for the 360 most of the time and then edit some code so that it runs on the PS3 is terms of the cross platform games. Point is games can be ported and made to look great, it just takes more time because you end up developing just for the wii so that you can completely take advantage of its hardware to the fullest and optimize code to squeeze every last bit of performance out of it.
The mind boggling part is that Wii has outsold everything (and almost everything put together) and has the widest consumer base and yet all this jacka$$ developers dont develop for it, a pity really.
Point is most devs are lazy, cut corners and don't want to take chances, that's in short why you don't get your moneys worth with on a cross gen title on the wii.
Most devs should not have to work hard to get these types of things. Devs can do this from the start with a PS3 or a 360... but look at the conduit. They had to build the engine from the STRAIGHT UP and then had to develop it even further. Its ridiculous. A dev should not have to go through that.
I too have both DS and PSP, and DS has by far, the worst library of games of any system I've ever owned. That is, till I bought a Wii which is even worse
Well one answer would be nostalgy, Nintendo has WiiWare, but Homebrew is more powerful. If Nintendo would support it (not officially), but if it would be easier to install homebrew channel without Nintendo blocking it, I think Wii would have more users.
Every game runs on any engine and most great games are made on an engine that was "built from the ground up" in order to optimize the hardware for the system that the games being developed for.
Every heard of COD4?? That games engine was built from the ground up. You make it sound like games don't run on engines and you sound like an ignorant douche in the process, go do your homework and then come back here when you actually know what the hell you're talking about.
Some dev's buy engines and others buy them and modify them, a very popular engine bought and used is the industry is the Unreal engine 3.
For the devs that don't buy their own engine, they then build their own engine. Sometimes that's part of the job for devs, so who are you again to say they shouldn't go through that? Oh yeah NOBODY.
Class dismissed.
Its way easier to develop for the Wii then it is the PS3.