After SEGA who claimed that they maybe won't making more mature games for the Wii, it is now Capcom France that is saying that "the future for us is on the XBox 360 & PS3 and that the Wii users who bought Resident Evil 4 at the beginning now turned to the HD consoles."
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
It doesn't matter if 50 million people bought the wii or 100 million because 90% of them are over 50 years in age and use it under the absurd impression they're going to get "fit" again. They use it as a social toy and nothing more. The wii isn't a games machine it's an instrument moronic yuppie parents drag out at coktail parties and try to look cool with.
Nintendo couldn't sell mature content to the porn industry no more than the porn industry could sell it to Disney.
As long as they don't mess with Monster Hunter Tri's release >_>
It was... invitable. Even as the best selling console, Nintendo can't keep third parties on board.
"“[Concerning Evil Resident: The Darkside Chronicles] In the absolute the figures are not too bad, but one will not lie oneself, they are lower than than one hoped."
Good. I'm glad it had low figures. The first one was absolutely atrocious, and I have no doubt that its sequel is any different.
"After three weeks (the interview was carried out on December 23, note), we are with a total of 16.000 sold parts. It is felt well that there is a very clear problem on this style of play on Wii, where obviously the gamers passed to other thing. Two years ago still, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles had however had one very very large success on Wii. There, it is noted, the customers of this console turned to things much more general public. It is a disappointment."
Probably because Crapcom tricked the public into thinking the game would be good, or that Capcom would start taking the Wii seriously if it sold well (which the game did, and which they said they'd do, but what they ended up not doing!).
"Resident Evil 4 on Wii had functioned well, but it left in June 2007, when the market did not have anything to see! This year on Wii, it was very difficult with a plethoric offer, and a market gamer which was radically upset. It is noted that the plays known as “gamers” are sold less and less on the console of Nintendo, that it is about MadWorld, of Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, The House off te Dead: Overkill… the scores were not extraordinary."
House of the Dead apparently sold well. But even if it didn't sell well-enough for Capcom... it's still just ANOTHER rail shooter, of which there are enough on the Wii. Chop Till You Drop is a goddamn joke. That game was absolute trash and it deserved the salecancer it received. If it sold one copy, it sold too many. MadWorld, while a good game, was pretty niche, and it was wayyyy too short. I sincerely regret paying full price for it when it first came out.
If we're going to talk about 3rd party titles that definitely didn't sell well enough on the Wii, let's talk about Boom Blox: Bash Party, Mercury Meltdown Revolution, Little King's Story, Muramasa, Rune Factory Frontier, A Boy and His Blob, Zack and Wiki, or Okami, which actually sold worse on the PS2.
Real gamers exist only on PS3 and Xbox 360. Their's no way i'll ever play on Wii's it's bad when your grand ma and grand pa are playing on Wii's It's a totally bad move for the industry and you know what. pure gaming will only get more polluted on the real gaming consoles with the introduction of more precised motion control peripheral from Sony and MS... i hope the grandma's and Pa's stay off this these platforms because i dont want cooking Mama on PS3, or Natal aerobics on the 360...