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AAA Wii third-party support on the way, says Capcom community specialist

"Honestly, I think the lack of AAA titles also has a lot to do with a lot of the 3rd parties simply being caught with their pants down. Triple A take a lot of time to develop; Many years in fact. For them to have been announced/released by now, it would have meant that they were in development/planning before/shortly after the Wii was released. However, nobody, besides Nintendo, expected the Wii sales to be so strong, and anyone who did should be buying lottery tickets.

However, the good news is, now that the industry has seen the rise of the Wii, I'm sure many plans and budgets have been shifted and adjusted, and triple A titles should be in their pipeline (though not ready to be announced). This means soon, you should be flooded with the titles from the franchises you're familiar with, and ones that aren't just spinoffs.

Have a little patience and faith in the little white console that could. I know I am. 'Lost'" - Community Specialist of Capcom Entertainment

There certainly is validity to these words. Twilight Princess alone took years to create and went through many tweaking/perfection processes. The same goes for Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3. It definitely is likely that AAA titles are in development if you're a believer in this type of development process.
Valay - contributor
Published: 565 days 20 hours ago | News | Wii | Gaming | Industry News
 
 

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PS360WII - 565 days 20 hours ago
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Well he does have a point. Those blockbuster titles do take a long time to make and when was the last time Nintendo released the must own home console?!
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sidar - 565 days 19 hours ago
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If only developers took the Wii more serious...They messed up some time and disappointed lots of gamers.

Love Capcoms support, i wonder if they could reinvent the Megeman legens serie....it was horrible with a gamepad!...wii mote might do the trick
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Monteblanco - 565 days 18 hours ago
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I like their honesty. They are basically admitting they screwed in the past but they are taking the challenge to make some AAA titles.
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Perverted - 565 days 17 hours ago
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I still doubt many true AAA titles will come to the Wii....Everyone will just release for the casual crowd...Maybe we'll get lucky and a couple of hardcore titles will release for the Wii.....I can only hope....
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bama - 565 days 16 hours ago
5.1 - There hasn't been a single market leader
That hasn't had triple a titles.
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cooke15 - 565 days 15 hours ago
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Madworld, No More Heroes, RE4, Trauma Center 1 and 2, Fatal Frame 4, Tenchu 4, FFCC Crystal Bearers, Fragile, TOS2, Zack and Wiki etc I love it when people blind themselves to what has/coming to Wii
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Covenant - 565 days 16 hours ago
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About $#&^*%@*%$ time. Better late then never, I suppose.
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bama - 565 days 16 hours ago
7 - You gotta love Capcom
They give good support to all of the consoles. Hell they pulled the PSP out of the ashes.
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TruthbeTold - 565 days 16 hours ago
8 - Ugh... You know what this means?
I think it means that since support is coming late, Nintendo's next console release will also be pushed back. I love the Wii, and graphics aren't everything to me, but I don't want to still be playing new games in 480p in 2011/2012 you know?
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bama - 565 days 16 hours ago
8.1 - Yeah
Really i see that happening. There was the ability to have 16 bit graphics for at least 2 years when the NES was released in 1985 but Nintendo didn't use them until 1991 with the SNES.

Here's an intresting quote though:

"Some consider the SNES to embody the "Golden Age of video games", citing its many groundbreaking games and the perceived focus on gameplay over graphics and technical gimmicks."

Its from wikipedia.

But really the SNES was supported well into the 32 bit era.
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TruthbeTold - 565 days 16 hours ago
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Yeah, I agree that the Wii will be fine, and likely have tons of excellent games before it's all said and done. However, it is clear that certain types of games won't play well online on the Wii due to its limitations, which to me means that we have to wait longer for things that we'd like to have. Such as a Pokemon MMORPG for example. Not to mention that they refuse to come up with a solid, convenient storage solution. But who knows... Maybe they can pull off a decent one on the Wii...
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bama - 565 days 15 hours ago
8.3 - If the Wii has a really long life cycle
Then they will have to have a storage solution. In 8 years even grandmas will have filled their memory with wiiware games. But I really think that they'll announce something at E3.
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MK_Red - 565 days 16 hours ago
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Well, Capcom has already been a the best third party publisher for Wii. Zack & Wiki, RE: UC and RE4 are among the Wii's best.
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wh0am1 - 565 days 12 hours ago
10 - Reruns huh?
AAA third party Wii titles?
people have been saying that since the Wii launch
i'll believe when i see it
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