The big reveal as i promised, this is what i ordered at play-asia today. If there is one thing i noticed about Play is that they rarely ever re-stock their items during sales period like this. Why would they, when they can hold back for a couple more days and revert back to their original store price. The sale is still a win-win situation for everyone, play gets to clear off their old stock of games from gathering dust and us gamers get to pick up a nice bargain.
Now i know every Nintendo fans are sulking for the most part after their recent E3 show because they fail to unveil any titles for their core audience. I for one, am less bothered by this because as i said many times before, i don't play many Nintendo first-party games anymore and i'm very pleased that they are still on the top of the current console race thereby ensuring a healthy supply of third-party games to come.
One such title is Capcom's Dead Rising, heading to the Wii very soon as reported in the pages of Famitsu. Now this is certainly a nice surprise seeing that most would probably expect it to be ported to the Playstation3 instead but when you think about it, the decision is pretty obvious. The game has had little success in Japan, partly due to it originally being an Xbox exclusive and the fact that it's a sandbox-style game, not a very popular genre in the japanese market. Secondly, the original Xbox release was not optimised for play for standard definition TV, drawing heavy criticism from gamers shortly after release.
To address all these issue, Capcom would have to seriously overhaul the entire look and gameplay of the game and knowing how lazy the folks at capcom are, they would surely go for broke and thus, the decision to make a Wii port instead of an obvious PLaystation3 port was conceived. Honestly i was pretty happy with the decision, after all i already got Lost Planet for my Playstaion 3 and the general impression was that it was a pretty unimpressive port. It remains to see how this port will fare but knowing some effort is being put to completely overhaul the mechanics of the gameplay and look, it should at least be on par with the Playstation 2 port of Resident Evil 4.
Oh and before i keep you waiting any longer on what i finally order from play asia today, here it is.
Now i know every Nintendo fans are sulking for the most part after their recent E3 show because they fail to unveil any titles for their core audience. I for one, am less bothered by this because as i said many times before, i don't play many Nintendo first-party games anymore and i'm very pleased that they are still on the top of the current console race thereby ensuring a healthy supply of third-party games to come.
One such title is Capcom's Dead Rising, heading to the Wii very soon as reported in the pages of Famitsu. Now this is certainly a nice surprise seeing that most would probably expect it to be ported to the Playstation3 instead but when you think about it, the decision is pretty obvious. The game has had little success in Japan, partly due to it originally being an Xbox exclusive and the fact that it's a sandbox-style game, not a very popular genre in the japanese market. Secondly, the original Xbox release was not optimised for play for standard definition TV, drawing heavy criticism from gamers shortly after release.
To address all these issue, Capcom would have to seriously overhaul the entire look and gameplay of the game and knowing how lazy the folks at capcom are, they would surely go for broke and thus, the decision to make a Wii port instead of an obvious PLaystation3 port was conceived. Honestly i was pretty happy with the decision, after all i already got Lost Planet for my Playstaion 3 and the general impression was that it was a pretty unimpressive port. It remains to see how this port will fare but knowing some effort is being put to completely overhaul the mechanics of the gameplay and look, it should at least be on par with the Playstation 2 port of Resident Evil 4.
Oh and before i keep you waiting any longer on what i finally order from play asia today, here it is.
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