Why would it look worse than Morrowind? Isn't the Wii supposed to be more powerful than the original Xbox?

I think what realyl hasn't been done in the the Wii Mature space is something with a mature theme AND an epic amount of content. Madworld, NMH even Deadly Creatures to a certain degree all hit us up on our mature content sensibilities. But they're each roughly 4 to 7 hours of a single play through, low replay experience.

But nobody's done the epic RPG or huge playspace sort of game that a "hardcore" player can really sink into and get hardcore-lost in, like a Morrowind or other such RPG space.

Do that, on any system, and I think you'll tap into a space in the market that's been dry for the last few years, across the board (save for maybe the "dead" PC space. funny eh?)

Mature Wii market? - Monster Hunter 3?

Hasn't Bethesda been one of the big Wii holdouts in the past?

Now, if Epic were to ever say it was making a Wii game, I would check out my window to make sure there are no pink elephants and flying pigs roaming around.

Games like Overkill and MadWorld are niche despite being promoted well. They're not mainstream titles.One's an on-rails shooter and the other is an original action title with a unique art style.

As far as I'm concerned, it's The Conduit that everyone should be looking at to see how well it does.

I've never cared for any of Bethesda's previous titles but I won't be quick to turn it down until I've learned more about it.

Also, is this called eating crow?

@HiddenAHB:
Why? What if it turns out to be good?

@Tubatic

Funny: "Wii is kiddy and we aren't going to make stuff for them... so here's an iPhone game instead!"

I think they can do something great, even for the Wii.

Well, whatever it is I hope it's a nice addition to the Wii's library.

@Tubatic

That's exactly what I thought of when I red this article.

lol your full of shit motorobo

tl;dr version: I pretty much said the same thing flabzilla said, but a lot less succinctly.

I´ll say it, now that no one said it yet!!!!

Madworld and HotD Overkill are the cash ins of the Core, we were bitching and moaning, as we always do, and SEGA published those two.

They are fun games but they are short, niche and highly flawed, MW is repetitive and HotD:O is choppy, no one in their right minds should take these two as indicatives of Mature games sellings.

Oh! Include Deadly creatures in this one, even though it is very innovative and all, the game is highly random, i do understand tha a critter life is kinda pointless but it sucks to be in a VG where you wander around for no reason and the story is accessory to the game.

Sad stories are Okami, even being a port, Tenchu 4, and Little King´s Story, very mature game buried under tons of sugar.

Bethesda ain't the first developer to promise "the moon" when it comes to mature titles on the Wii.My response to their recent announcement is put up or shut up.

@MotoRobo

So basically, you're saying that even though you think it's technically possible that devs can make good games on the Wii, you think nobody should bother even trying, because it's merely the Wii and the Wii is just blah blah blah (same old tired stuff that all of the Wii's detractors say over and over again)? Let me guess: if it were up to you, devs would only be making games for the PS3 now?

No really. You, yourself, just said that this can be done on the Wii. That's great. I agree. But you're also saying that it shouldn't be done on the Wii, because... well, it's the Wii, I guess? It's not the "proper vehicle for concepts of depth", whatever the hell that means. That, apparently, the Wii should just give up and stick to what it's "good" at (i.e. the shovelware cashgrab bullshit), and leave it to the big boys to handle the "real" stuff. That's what it sounds to me like you're saying here. Maybe I'm misinterpreting you. But if that is what you're saying (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here), let me just say that I think that is the lowest form of fanboy bullshit and that it, again, is absolutely fucking retarded.

I've said this I don't know how many times before and I'll say it again, games do not have to be "more demanding" in a purely technological sense in order to still be "thoughtful, learned, wise, sober, worldly, etc" or whatever word you want to use. Yes, the bells and whistles found on a "more powerful engine of delivery" are certainly nice and all when they're properly utilized, but they're not at all required to be there before a game can be considered "good" and "fun to play". Those two things are what is the most important, in my view. If you lack those two things, I don't care how many awesome bloom effects or highly complex physics/AI algorithms or uber-realistic shades of brown and gray you have in your game, it's still going to suck. "Good" and "fun to play", whether it's in a mature game or in the kiddiest of kiddie games. I think the Wii still has plenty of capacity for both of those types of games. It seems that you feel differently, but again I don't know.

In any case, I truly wish that you were in the fringe minority when it came to the Wii, but from my own observations the opposite seems to be the case, unfortunately, whether it's justified or not. It is because so many people seem to feel the same way as you about the Wii that the Wii is getting shafted so badly now. That was, of course, the point of my first post.