[Wii] Mario Rising

Originally Posted by Shin

Ok, fair enough, I am exaggerating a little but Nintendo's advertising campaigns do them no favours. The only adverts I've seen on tv for Wii games that haven't featured Mario were for Guitar Hero and Boom Blox and the GH ad featured an old man touching up a young boy and the Boom Blox one had a bunch of four year old kids in it. The insertion of Mario into everything was more of a Gamecube thing (Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Soccer) but most other things you listed were ports and I can't think of anyone I know over the age of 13 who owns a Wii who doesn't also own either a 360 or PS3. Maybe that's just round here and there are people all over the world with only a Wii who have never had the opportunity to play Canis Canem Edit or Dead Rising or Metal Gear and are thankful for downgraded ports that cost twice the amount you pick up the superior version on the original platform for. In my experience though, the Wii is strictly a second console, one that you only use when you've got mates round after the pub and to be fair, it's great for that. I don't see how porting games like this will help any. If you're a serious gamer rather than a mates-round-pissed gamer and want to play Dead Rising, chances are you've got a 360 and could just play it on that. What self respecting "Serious" gamer chose a Wii when the three current gen options presented themselves anyway? None of them, or at any rate none of them with a wage or salary rather than pocket money to spend on it.

They're practically non existant on here, but there are Nintendo fanboys out there who refuse to have anything that's not a Nintendo system. I have at least one on my AIM friendlist. One of my co workers is the same way except he actually has a PS2, but the Wii is his only next gen console. Just because people like you, me, and others on here are logical enough to buy the system that has the games we want, doesn't mean everyone is.

Sony and Microsoft have fans like this too. Why do you think there is so much Rage whenever a system loses an exclusive? Fanboys see it as a blow to their console god.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by surasshu

I also don't think that Wiimote-based controls will be effective for this game.

That's why more and more games are allowing you to use the classic controller. I've heard Capcom allowed people to use it for Resident Evil 4 so I see no reason why they wouldn't let you use a regular controller for Dead Rising.

The Wiimote works great for games that are based around it... well sometimes. But any ports of regular games should always allow a regular controller.

One has to wonder if this is kind of a foreshadowing. If they can port one 360 game to the Wii, perhaps they'll port Resident Evil 5 over later down the road?

There's nowhere I can't reach.