Then why does each successive console seem to have fewer games developed for it? SNES might’ve had more than NES (not sure), but it’s certainly gone downhill from there. The comparison is striking when you go into a game store and they have a whole wall of Xbox games, 2 walls and a couple 4’x6’ bins full of PS2 games, and then a little tiny shelf with maybe 30 Gamecube games on it. The first store I looked for Gamecube games in I almost left because I thought they didn’t carry them. Turns out there just weren’t that many made and they didn’t sell very well.
I had an N64 when it was the underdog to the PS, then I had an Xbox when it was the underdog to the PS2, and now I have a Wii and it’s the underdog to the Xbox360 and the PS3. I miss the NES/SNES days when it rained and good games fell out of the sky.
Besides what Bailey pointed out you’re using a sample size of one that occurred when the wounds were still fresh. Even if the software developers refuse to get their heads out of the sand the Wii is tracking better than the Gamecube.
As for “underdog” I don’t think you can be called the “underdog” when you’re the top seller in the market. Now getting software companies to recognize that and stop pretending that the Wii doesn’t count is an odd problem in itself.
It looks like I misspoke. The NES actually had around 800 games released for it. So really, aside form the N64 (which was an anomaly in every way), roughly the same number of games have always been released for Nintendo systems.
I don’t think it’s the developers as much as I think they slightly underdeveloped the Wii. The specs are a tad too low IMHO for developers to make WOW games on it compared to the big boys. I understand trying to keep it cheap but they could have beefed it up a bit in the graphics dept at least.
As I said in another thread, Nintendo could have relased Wii-motes for the Gamecube and made the exact same games. Devs didn’t develope for the Cube, and I don’t see it being different this time.
Performance has little to do with choice of software development platform. the PS2 was severely underpowered compared to the Gamecube and XBox but it was the clear winner in software development (and everything else besides hardware performance) last gen. In every development cycle before this game companies went where the people went; whoever had the advantage in hardware sales gained the advantage in software regardless of the actual specs. This time its different and my personal theory is that its psychological on the part of the developers.
I don’t know how to get my Wii internet thing going. Any help on that one? I do use a wireless router for my PC’s here at home. Any help is appreciated.
I’m at work right now so I can’t look but IIRC you just go into Wii Settings and select your router. It was refreshingly easy. The internet crawls most of the time, though, and you get a lot of timeouts on the Wii Shop Channel.
Yeah, just point your machine at your wireless router and supply your encryption key and you’re good to go. I bought a $20 WiiPoints card at a game store and found that easy to load into the Wii Shop thingy - but all I did with it was download the Opera “Internet Channel”, and I haven’t really used that for much. Nintendo console games bore the tits off me, so maybe that wasn’t the greatest investment for me.
I am glad to hear that there are some good Wii games out there.
I bought Medal of Honour: Airbourne and have been having fun with that. I like the way Sonic: Secret of the Rings looks, but the gameplay is as involving as Dragon’s Lair. We have Smash Bros., and it’s pretty weak. Since then I’ve been to the game store about ten times, stand at the wee Wii shelf until my eyes glaze over, and then wander over to the PC games section.
Please send games. (Skip the infantile ones, please.)
Works best if your router is on channel 11, I find. Make sure there’s no interference.
Also, I was wrong. With the FFXIII announcement, the PS3 is clearly the XBox’s bitch.
Oh, yeah. Microsoft just drank Sony’s milkshake.
Don’t forget the Wii Shop has Sega Saturn games, and Turbo Graphix 16 games. Some of which were really very excellent.
By the way, I just watched the trailer - is Final Fantasy full-blown scifi now? Wasn’t it a, you know, fantasy franchise at one point?
It has Sega and Sega Genesis. No Saturn if I’m not mistaken. Which games are you referring to, by the way? None of the Sega or TG16 games I’ve seen really appeal to me, but I might’ve missed a few.
True, it is. But Sony can no longer play the “FF13 is only on the PS3” card anymore. And since they considered it one of their “tentpole” games (with MGS4 being the other), this is a huge blow.
And Final Fantasy has been sci-fi based for a long time. Since at least 7 (although 9 was a regression back to fantasy).
Genesis, not Saturn. Sorry, I always do that. There’s some Master System games, too. And some Neo-Geo.
Ecco, Golden Axe, Altered Beast (Wize frowm your gwave!), Gunstar Heroes, Space Harrier II, Comix Zone, Toejame and Earl, Sonic III for Sega, off the top of my head.
TG-16? R-Type, Bonk, Alien Crush, Battle Lode Runner, Galaga '90 (A favorite), Psychosis, Devil Crush…
Neo-Geo? KoF 94, Fatal Fury, Metal Slug, King of the Monsters?
It’s cheaper than the cartridges are at used bookstores and game stores around here, and you don’t have to blow on them or hook another system up, or store them, or worry about them getting damaged. If your Wii hard drive fills up (and I’ve not found it to be as pathetically small as a lot of people say it is) - you can delete them and download them again later for free.
Wikipedia says it’s for both systems.