Nintendo, Keeping the Good Games Away to Make Room for Shovelware?
This is outrageous. Co-developed by Tecmo, who developed the other games in the terrific Fatal Frame survival-horror series, and Grasshopper, the innovative folks behind Killer 7 and No More Heroes, Fatal Frame IV is exactly the sort of game those of us complaining about the dearth of good Wii games want to see. Nintendo keeps claiming they care about "core" gamers, but this is a pretty clear indicator that they are more interested in mediocre casual games than in making the Wii a platform for all gamers. (Core gamers are far better served on the Wii by Sega, who has put out several strong games).
Someone has created a petition demanding the game's release outside of Japan (they refer to it as Project Zero, but it's the same game). I don't know how much good petitions do, but I still signed it.
For shame, Nintendo, for spiking one of the most promising Wii games available.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/preview-fatal-frame/38543
Old. They all had a legitimate reason, no one wanted to fix all the problems Fatal Frame IV had for an international release (it’s talked about towards the end of the video). That and combined with the fact that J-Horror doesn’t appeal to the western world much along with low sales of an obscure series.
“All the problems?” All the video says is the game has some frame rate and collision detection issues; those aren’t even necessary fixes; a lot of games come to the U.S. with more serious problems than that. As for j-horror being out of fashion, LucasArts killed the adventure game Sam & Max because adventure games were out of fashion, and then after Telltale Games made a success out of their own Sam & Max games LucasArts is back in the adventure game business.
Anyway, my central point still stands; there are a lack of core games for the Wii and Nintendo is sitting on what looks to be an awesome game with some of the best Wii graphics yet.