The Wii may end up losing a big amount of its awesome exclusives

"Marvelous Entertainment backed the Wii in a big way with new series like Little King's Story, No More Heroes, Arc Rise Fantasia, and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. However, sales of these games in Japan (Little King's Story excluded, of course, since it's only out in Europe) haven't been stellar.

In a financial presentation Marvelous has a new plan for their rich library of properties. First, is moving into multi-platform PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 development. I can confirm that Rainy Woods, Marvelous' first title specifically made for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, is still in development. Their other strategy is porting some of their Wii titles to the PS3 and Xbox 360."

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/07/02/marvelous-considering-wii-to-playstation-3xbox-360-ports/

This could be a pretty big loss, as these are some of its best titles! How do you feel about this possiblity?

I think the wii needs some awesome exclusives before it can lose them

I heard about that, shame for the wiil osing alright exclusives :lol:

Oh dear... That's not good... :(

NMH Is great on the wii I couldnt imagine it anywhere else.

Awesome, I would love to play NMH and LKS, if they don't end up on PS3/360 whenever I get around to buying a Wii, then I'll just get them on that though.

Not sure how much I care really. It's Nintendo's own fault.

I think the wii needs some awesome exclusives before it can lose them

All_that_is_Man

It may or may not happen. They said it was a potential strategy that they might consider in the future.

this happening would be totally awesome, Id love playing NMH on my 360.

If this is true, pretty soon the term third party exclusive won't exist on consoles anymore. Still, I say wait until these games come to North America before making a decision to port them.

At any rate, I'll will still buy Little King Story, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Arc Rise Fantasia and No More Heroes 2.

MEGATON COMETH!!!

If this eve happens, I wonder what would the sheep have left to brag about?? Ever since the new motion sensing stuffs from Sony and MS were announced, I thought it was matter of time before the Wii exclusives were ported to those systems.

A big ouch for Nintendo. Now that it may consider coming over to the 360 & PS3, we can already tell that the graphics, etc. will be fantastic on both of them.

I'm not surprise at all.

I may alrady have all of them on my Wii already but I wouldnt mind buying them again if they were on another console. They''re all great games, especially Marumasa and Rune Factory.

Porting games from Wii to the HD consoles just reek of a bad idea just like porting games from the HD consoles to the Wii, there's just somethings that doesn't get translated very well and we are left with very weak products all around. That being said, I hope their ventures play out well though.

The Wii can't lose any of its awesome exclusives because they are all first party titles. Third party developers put their best stuff on the other two consoles.

[QUOTE="All_that_is_Man"]

I think the wii needs some awesome exclusives before it can lose them

Stevo_the_gamer

Exclusives yes, Quality? ha....

Quality and wii shouldn't be said in the same sentense.....

I think the wii needs some awesome exclusives before it can lose them

All_that_is_Man

It doesn't affect me since all I do is play, but Nintendo must not be too happy about it.

Marvelous needs to do what they have to do. I think that so long as they can get back into good financial position, I'm happy with this move. They deserve to do better considering how well garbage like Activision and Square Enix (yeah they are crap right now overall) can do releasing lazy games. This probably also means Muramasa in HD :P

PS3 will be the death of 'em.

Most will play best with the Wiimote due to the motion. The ones that don't though, I would enjoy playing in HD.SpruceCaboose

Spruce, do you actually know what Marvelous releases lol? The only game they have that even needs the wiimote is NMH :P Everything else is Classic Controller compatible.

Exclusives yes, Quality? ha....

Quality and wii shouldn't be said in the same sentense.....

All_that_is_Man

Guess which lists are lonely on the exclusive front, here I'll tell you: Xbox 360 and PS3.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p8153E9FCqcu0vgSkkHQJWw&gid=1

[QUOTE="All_that_is_Man"]

Exclusives yes, Quality? ha....

Quality and wii shouldn't be said in the same sentense.....

Stevo_the_gamer

Guess which lists are lonely on the exclusive front, here I'll tell you: Xbox 360 and PS3.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p8153E9FCqcu0vgSkkHQJWw&gid=1

I prefer quality over quantity

I prefer quality over quantity

All_that_is_Man

I don't think those titles are selling consoles.

"Marvelous Entertainment backed the Wii in a big way with new series like Little King's Story, No More Heroes, Arc Rise Fantasia, and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. However, sales of these games in Japan (Little King's Story excluded, of course, since it's only out in Europe) haven't been stellar.

In a financial presentation Marvelous has a new plan for their rich library of properties. First, is moving into multi-platform PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 development. I can confirm that Rainy Woods, Marvelous' first title specifically made for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, is still in development. Their other strategy is porting some of their Wii titles to the PS3 and Xbox 360."

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/07/02/marvelous-considering-wii-to-playstation-3xbox-360-ports/

This could be a pretty big loss, as these are some of its best titles! How do you feel about this possiblity?

BioShockOwnz

If true that means suddenly all these games for the Wii that were kiddy and didn't matter will suddenly be amazing and great simply because they are appearing on more than just the Wii. Honestly though, isn't only one of those games listed above out in the States right now? Kinda early to be complaining about sales when they still have yet to arrive in the region with the biggest audience.

This is bad if you're a fanboy, good if you're a PS3/360 gamer.

More gamers need too experience those great titles.

I don't think those titles are selling consoles.

LOXO7

games don't sell wii's wii's sell wii's

Well its Marvelous' own fault for crappy advertising.

It's worth noting that Marvelous doesn't necessarily own the publishing rights to those games outside of Japan (Muramasa is by Ignition Entertainment and Rising Star Games, No More Heroes is by Ubisoft, and Little King's Story and Arc Rise Fantasia are co-published by Xseed)

Well I was just thinking about how I wished marvelous would make some titles for the PS3, so this is great for me. Here's to hoping for a PS3 harvest moon.

Not sure how much I care really. It's Nintendo's own fault.

treedoor

Why is it nintendo's fault?

The only one that might benefit from being in HD is Muramasa. That could be cool. I like their games, so I can't really complain about them going to other consoles. They need to do what they need to do.

Well, if they arent selling that well on the Wii yet the Wii is still selling like hot cakes... it cant be that big of a loss.carljohnson3456

Um, I meant in terms of exclusives and their meaning here on SWs, not sales. We all know the majority of Wii owners don't like quality hardcore gaming titles.

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I don't think those titles are selling consoles.

All_that_is_Man

games don't sell wii's wii's sell wii's

It's worth noting that Marvelous doesn't necessarily own the publishing rights to those games outside of Japan (Muramasa is by Ignition Entertainment and Rising Star Games, No More Heroes is by Ubisoft, and Little King's Story and Arc Rise Fantasia are co-published by Xseed)

_BlueDuck_

Marvelous never publishes their games in NA but what difference does that make?

Sometimes good games don't sell, even if you switch consoles. Take Okami for example. It had dissapointing sales on PS2, then the same on Wii.

[QUOTE="_BlueDuck_"]

It's worth noting that Marvelous doesn't necessarily own the publishing rights to those games outside of Japan (Muramasa is by Ignition Entertainment and Rising Star Games, No More Heroes is by Ubisoft, and Little King's Story and Arc Rise Fantasia are co-published by Xseed)

hakanakumono

Marvelous never publishes their games in NA but what difference does that make?

It just means its not necessarily their call here. For example Muramasa almost ended up publisherless here, which would have sucked. If these games failed to reach sales expectations (which is what the articles suggests) then other publishers might not be so keen on localizing them. Not saying that's the case one way or another, but its a possibility.

Sometimes good games don't sell, even if you switch consoles. Take Okami for example. It had dissapointing sales on PS2, then the same on Wii.

flazzle

The wii ver. wasn't ported by Capcom and has graphical issues.

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[QUOTE="_BlueDuck_"]

It's worth noting that Marvelous doesn't necessarily own the publishing rights to those games outside of Japan (Muramasa is by Ignition Entertainment and Rising Star Games, No More Heroes is by Ubisoft, and Little King's Story and Arc Rise Fantasia are co-published by Xseed)

_BlueDuck_

Marvelous never publishes their games in NA but what difference does that make?

It just means its not necessarily their call here. For example Muramasa almost ended up publisherless here, which would have sucked. If these games failed to reach sales expectations (which is what the articles suggests) then other publishers might not be so keen on localizing them. Not saying that's the case one way or another, but its a possibility.

I doubt that all publishers are going to refuse them. :roll:

Can't say I was interested in playing any of those titles in the first place.

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[QUOTE="hakanakumono"]

Marvelous never publishes their games in NA but what difference does that make?

hakanakumono

It just means its not necessarily their call here. For example Muramasa almost ended up publisherless here, which would have sucked. If these games failed to reach sales expectations (which is what the articles suggests) then other publishers might not be so keen on localizing them. Not saying that's the case one way or another, but its a possibility.

I doubt that all publishers are going to refuse them. :roll:

Yeah I know that. I'm just saying that Marvelous porting these over doesn't comfirm that they will bereleased outside of Japan.

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[QUOTE="hakanakumono"]

Marvelous never publishes their games in NA but what difference does that make?

hakanakumono

It just means its not necessarily their call here. For example Muramasa almost ended up publisherless here, which would have sucked. If these games failed to reach sales expectations (which is what the articles suggests) then other publishers might not be so keen on localizing them. Not saying that's the case one way or another, but its a possibility.

I doubt that all publishers are going to refuse them. :roll:

No, but that is hardly eye roll worthy. The reasoning behind the thought is solid. That's why second rate publishers are picking up these games for the most part. (well besides NMH, since Ubi is actually big)