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Third-party devs "under-exploiting" Wii

Battalion Wars 2 dev says there's "room to do more" on "GameCube x2".

There are "a lot of lazy titles" on the Wii and developers are "under-exploiting" Nintendo's console - that's the stark message from the creative director of Kuju, developer of the Battalion Wars games.

Speaking in an interview with VideoGamer.com, Tancred Dyke-Wells, creative director at UK-based developer Kuju, said that despite the fact that the Wii is more powerful than the GameCube "by a factor of two", third party titles "really don't take full advantage of the machine".

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Astro6796d ago (Edited 6796d ago )

NinjaBread Man comes to mind.

predator6796d ago

alot of wii games come to mind, the sad truth, hope it changes

lynx1halo6796d ago

Gamecube2 LOL just like ive been saying all along LOL

ShadoWulf6796d ago (Edited 6796d ago )

this article argues AGAINST your point. It says the Wii is capable of much more than we've seen so far (perhaps barring first party games).

You've been saying all along that the current games on the Wii are Gamecube 2. Well, Wii can do better. Sure, it's got twice the power of the Gamecube. That means it's twice as good as last gen, plus the controller. I don't see how you can call that anything but current gen.

IntelligentAj6796d ago

Yeah...we'll see if that's true or not.

moses6796d ago

I really hope Wii shows some of it's potential soon. It can be a really great system, it's just the developers are, well... retarded at the moment.

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.

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ActualWhiteMan75d ago (Edited 75d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg74d ago

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.

Smellsforfree74d ago

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.

Loktai74d ago

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.

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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996) Still Feels Like Peak 90s Star Wars

Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.

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MayorPauline104d ago

This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆

Redgrave104d ago

Because it is.

Please re-release this.

SimpleSlave104d ago (Edited 104d ago )

But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.

Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.

Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.

shinXseijuro103d ago

As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .

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How Trackmania inspired the “biggest feature ever created” for The Crew Motorfest

Debuting in Season 9, all players can try a beta of The Crew Motorfest’s new ambitious track creator, TrackForge.