Mizuguchi: Anxious About Wii Plans

By Adam Riley 24.01.2008 8

Quick News - Former Sega man, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, now head of Q Entertainment, has stated he has no plans to support Wii yet as he is worried about Nintendo being too strong on the system. As for a Space Channel 5 remake, it will be considered if reason to do so arises.

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paul_sant2003 is offline. paul_sant2003 24.01.2008#1

This sort of comment really bugs me. The reason Nntendo is so strong on the system is due to the quality games they produce. If third parties want a peice of the action then maybe they should put more time into producing games of the same quality

 
tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 24.01.2008#2

While that's true. There is evidence to his statements...Zack and Wiki, No More Heroes and countless of other decent third party games. I mean Mario Party 8 sells well and it's trash. You can kind of see where they're coming from.

 
squeek is offline. squeek 24.01.2008#3

I would have thought Sega will be making a lot more profit on Sonic & secret rings, Mario & Sonic Olympics than their high def games.

Now it's been shown that the Wii is hitting a more mature audience than the 360 and PS3, as it has a much higher average age and much higher percentage of women owners I'm really surprised that noone seems to be aiming towards this market. Making games that are challenging, interesting, but not filled with sweaty, muscley marines shooting aliens (despite this being described as mature in computer game circles it is not) or cartoon, sweet, childish design.

Zack and Wiki appears like it could have been like this if they'd have kept the levels the same, style the same, but just changed the characters to be a bit more universally appealing, ie the main character could have been a young adult, mid 20s with a less silly sidekick.

Wii sports does well at this because it isn't injected with testosterone to appeal to lads or childish, hence it appeals to everyone.

 
Mandown is offline. Mandown 24.01.2008#4

paul_sant2003 said:
This sort of comment really bugs me. The reason Nintendo is so strong on the system is due to the quality games they produce. If third parties want a piece of the action then maybe they should put more time into producing games of the same quality

I agree.

 
patjuan32 is offline. patjuan32 25.01.2008#5

@tiamat1990,

Capcom did not advertise Zak and Wiki. That was the problem with its sales. No More Heroes is selling better than Killer 7 and most other Suda 51 produced games. Furthermore for the month of December the Wii had an 8 to 1 software to console ratio. That was higher than the Xbox 360 ( NPD data).

Third party software is doing well on the Wii. But if this guy does not want to take the chance then that's his loss. The Wii has a 20 million user fanbase which is more divers than any other home console. All most any game, with an advertising budget, can be successful.

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 25.01.2008#6

as he is worried about Nintendo being too strong on the system.

As James Bond stated it: Heads of companies change, lies stays the same...
What is this guy? Chicken? Build great software, let franchises grow over the years and you will sell your software, too.
Nintendo has 25 years of franchises to sell core games to us.
But what with Touch! Generation? Nintendo opened that market, and from scratach, too. If it can do something like that, everyone can.
It's about doing great things and earning a lot of money. That's okay. eArning money with mediocre shit like Microsoft or EA is something Tetsuya Miziguchi seem to want to do. But that's exactly what brought SEGA into struggle. Okay, Sega released far shitier shit then Microsoft with Sonic's Not-Wii-Games and Nights - Journey into Dreams.
Quality sales. And sex. But sex isn't Q's and Sega's thing. So do quality. Okay, that's not Segas thing either...

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
mooojc is offline. mooojc 25.01.2008#7

Well, it's money we are talking about here, of course he'll be scared. But to get more, need to take some risk.

 
Dr_R is offline. Dr_R 25.01.2008#8

Just a note. Capcom believe Zack & Wiki is doing well and as expected. It's a new IP in a niche genre that is rare on consoles. They wouldn't have expected it to sell in the millions, no matter the quality.

"This man has advanced communist views ... He dresses in a bohemian fashion both at his office and in his leisure hours."
 

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