It's being reported that Marvelous Entertainment is considering bringing its Wii games, including No More Heroes and Muramasa: The Demon Blade, to a console where they might get a tiny bit more appreciation, with ports to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Marvelous gave huge support to the Wii with a wide range of games, but so far hasn't been highly rewarded in the sales department. Now the publisher is looking toward the HD consoles -- first with an all new game called Rainy Woods, and second with a selection of ported Wii games.
None of this is confirmed, but Marvelous is certainly looking into it. I hope it's bloody true, as well. Muramasa especially doesn't need the waggle very much, and many people were hoping for a No More Heroes port when it first came out. Hopefully this happens soon. Let's face it, it can't hurt their sales any worse to try.
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Do want.
But i'd very much like to see Suda 51 do something new, just for the big boxes
That's 1 year of no complaining from a gamer. That's worth like, 50 million pounds of gold, no less.
Disclaimer: consoles from all the four major console makers of the last 10 years sit under my TV. No fanboyism here.
They should do a two pack of No More Heroes and Baroque, Little King's Story and Arc Rise Fantasia, with Muramasa and Rune Factory Frontier rounding it out.
Either way this is possible good news since Little King's Story is looking to be a do want and I would rather have it on my 360 than my wii.
Did you know that the original NMH was first being developed for the 360? Some other shit happened and.......I forgot, look it up.
God bless DLC
What they should have done was to advertise their products better, if anything can be said about "the conduit" is that advertising and proper marketing sell core games on the Wii, the market is here but the ads are not, little Kings story is leaps and bounds a better game than the conduit, however it will see a percentage of its sales, a shame really.
Now, the same game, if ported to PS360 will demand a graphic overhaul so big that will invalidate the effort and the installed base will see it as another cute kiddie game.
I was thinking about it yesterday, it would be so AWESOME.
Am I the only one who liked the wii graphics in NMH and think that upgrading them would be more trouble than it was worth?
Besides, NMH sold just fine on the wii. I think it hit the 500k mark eventually, making it suda51's best selling game to date.
Take off the tinfoil hat, mate.
Its a fallacy to think it will sell any better on other systems, some games just don't sell well, I thought Marvellous knew this when they choose to make niche games.
Still, good luck.
This is nice for non-Wii owners who didn't get a chance to play the game, but it likely won't do anything for Marvelous's sales. If you can't sell on the system with the highest amount of customers, you likely can't sell anywhere else.
Don't give me any of that stuff about the X/PS being more "hardcore". The Wii has a ton of gamers from all walks of life, including ones who used to or currently own an X/PS. Bottom line, these games are always going to sell low since they appeal to a niche audience. That audience is just as much a niche on the X/PS as it is on the Wii.
Couple that with the game best being played on the Wii (the beat-em-up is boring without the motions), the graphics looking outdated to a "Hardcore" X/PS player, the stigma it'll get for being originally released on the Wii, and the general unwillingness to try new things among the X/PS crowd (like 400$ for the system plus 60$ for the games doesn't make for a very risky buyer) makes for a game that still won't sell.
The sad thing is I'll buy it again.
Me too. It looks like it's heavily improved on the first game.
When your 'highest amount of costumers' happens to be a conglomerate of senior citizens and kids in the 6-12 age area (who wouldn't be interested in M-rated titles to begin with..), I have a hard time believing you could make that kind of assertion.
The Wii doesn't have the same kind of user base as MS's Xbox 360 and Sony's PS3. I think the greatest limitation on NMH would be the lack of motion controls, though, as the novelty of NMH would wear off pretty quickly without them. Hopefully they have Natal and such in mind.
Sales of other games like Zack and Wiki, Okami etc, prove that there's not enough of an enthusiatic audience on Wii
With HD visuals and achievements, these could grab more money for them. Hell, it beats just letting them gather dust.
Can't say I'm upset by this news myself. I think it's pretty great more people will get to play one of these games if I'm honest, but I'm a bit saddened by some of the reactions to this news.
I guess the TL;DR version of this disaster of a post would be: "These games probably won't sell much better on other consoles because none of them look like Killzone."
Can't say I'm upset by this news myself. I think it's pretty great more people will get to play one of these games if I'm honest, but I'm a bit saddened by some of the reactions to this news.
I guess the TL;DR version of this disaster of a post would be: "These games probably won't sell much better on other consoles because none of them look like Killzone."