2D Shoot Em Ups on X-Box360, PS-3, Wii…

jp · Post by jp » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:58 am

Asherdude wrote:
When I was speaking about sales, I was talking about the over all console numbers. Nintendo sold 168,000 Wii's while Sony sold 53,000 PS3's and Microsoft sold 8,700 360's. Those are the numbers that developers can't ignore.

They might as well ignore them, because unless your name is "Nintendo", your games probably aren't going to sell well on the Wii.

ex.machina · Post by **ex.machina** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:03 am

jp wrote: They might as well ignore them, because unless your name is "Nintendo", your games probably aren't going to sell well on the Wii.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if software sales on Wii are relatively low. Why? Cause probably 50% of all Wii buyer just grab the Wii Sports bundle and won't bother about any other game. Maybe they will end up getting Wii Fit eventually.

I hope there will be more good shooters coming for 360 and/or PS3. I just don't like the whole Wii idea very much, though I own all three consoles.

Asherdude · Post by **Asherdude** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:57 pm

icycalm wrote:-huge backlibrary of Virtual Console shoot 'em ups for people who just happen to be practically blind and have never heard of emulation

There's a lot of games that I downloaded on the VC that I never could get to work right with emulation. Gate of Thunder is a good example. Even Malc admits to having trouble with level 2 on Axelay when he wrote its xenocide review. Link. But those games work perfectly on the VC.

MR_Soren · Post by **MR_Soren** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:39 pm

RyanDG wrote:
Asherdude wrote:It looks like the Wii is becoming the developers first choice for our future shmups. Those japanese sale figures must be too hard to ignore.
Considering the sales performance of Shikigami no Shiro 3 on the Xbox 360 compared to the Wii in Japan, I'm not sure if this is going to be the case.

Yeah, I saw that too. However Shiki 3 is only getting a Wii release in the US. (according to what's been announced thus far.)

The Japanese Wii version might continue selling longer because the system sells much better creating thousands of potential Shiki 3 Wii customers every day. I'm not convinced that week one sales are the final word.

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:36 pm

Asherdude wrote:
icycalm wrote:-huge backlibrary of Virtual Console shoot 'em ups for people who just happen to be practically blind and have never heard of emulation
There's a lot of games that I downloaded on the VC that I never could get to work right with emulation. Gate of Thunder is a good example. Even Malc admits to having trouble with level 2 on Axelay when he wrote its xenocide review. Link. But those games work perfectly on the VC.

Malc's review is probably a few years old. As far as I know Axelay is perfectly emulated by now...same goes for Gate of Thunder.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:45 am

What about Gradius VI? (Gradius 6)
I remember reading an article almost 2 years ago, that it was supposed to be under development by Konami & Treasure for the SONY PS-3?!

Post by **spadgy** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:47 pm

ST Dragon wrote:What about Gradius VI? (Gradius 6)
I remember reading an article almost 2 years ago, that it was supposed to be under development by Konami & Treasure for the SONY PS-3?!

That would be very damn exciting. I'd love to see that as a boxed retail PS3 title. Surely one day it will happen?

MR_Soren · Post by **MR_Soren** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:01 pm

Gradius VI has allegedly been put on indefinite hold, but hopefully development will commence/resume after the PS3 installed base grows.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:34 am

Where did you read that?
Nay Links?

MR_Soren · Post by **MR_Soren** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:10 pm

Nevermind, it sounds as if it was a misprint in a Japanese magazine, and Konami claims the game is going ahead as intended.

link

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:32 pm

Cool.
I hope Gradius VI will be released in real disc media form and not via download service.

Well, if the Euro PAL SONY PS3 was in fact 100% backwards compatible with PS1/2 and could play imports of PS1/2 shooters, then I might have considered getting one.

But for now I'll stick to my home-modded PS-1 & PS-2 consoles.

I'm sure that nuisance will be solved once the PS3 is properly modded.

Post by **spadgy** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:49 pm

My PS3 is a PAL one and with recent downloadable upgrades seems a lot more backwards compatibility friendly. That said I use my de-bug PS3 all the time now, so I might just have forgotten how rubbish the PAL one is for BC, so don't quote me on it and go out and buy a PAL one!