{"id":82,"date":"2007-12-11T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T14:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinagonzalez.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/11\/taking-the-wii-seriously\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T14:10:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T14:10:35","slug":"taking-the-wii-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/taking-the-wii-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Wii Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading some gaming news today and saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/50317\">announcement<\/a> for <em>Wonderworld Amusement Park<\/em> for the Wii. Now, I think the Wii has much to offer, but developers are still not taking it very seriously. The system is overloaded with minigame compilations. The pack-in <em>Wii Sports<\/em> is a minigame compilation itself. <\/p>\n<p>Now, recently, many have been blaming low software sales for all but first-party titles. Economically speaking, that&#039;s a bad sign, but when you take into account just how many developers underestimated the Wii&#039;s potential success, these numbers might not even be relevant in a year. What&#039;s going to determine that? Well, better software should be a start. However, in order to get to that point, studios have to assign more development time, team members, and budget. And they have to stop thinking in such simplistic terms for the console.<\/p>\n<p>It was a port, but Resident Evil 4 showed just how a serious, &quot;hardcore&quot; title could work on this system. With refreshed controls, it took advantage of the system&#039;s capabilities in a well-integrated, not tacked-on, manner. There are marquee titles on the way like Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which I&#039;m looking forward to, but then there are the junky, gimmicky, low-budget titles. Every console has its duds, but current the failure of developers to take the Wii seriously is something to watch. I certainly hope we see at least a somewhat different picture by this time next year, with fewer throwaway titles. I&#039;m aware that the Wii is marketed as a very social system with a low barrier to entry. It is. But that doesn&#039;t mean that there can&#039;t be a slew of even more amazing titles in development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading some gaming news today and saw the announcement for Wonderworld Amusement Park for the Wii. Now, I think the Wii has much to offer, but developers are still not taking it very seriously. The system is overloaded with minigame compilations. The pack-in Wii Sports is a minigame compilation itself. Now, recently, many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,13,14,131],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-game-development","tag-gaming","tag-video-games","tag-wii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nVuU-1k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}