Super Meat Boy on WiiWare Would Be a "Piece of Sh*t"

[Sephychu]

'kay. I'll buy it for PC. Plenty of great games still on the Wii.

 

[Balobo]

Lost Winds: Winter of the Melodias looks better and Cave Story is bigger.
Looks like "maybe it's possible but not worth it."

As much as I love Cave Story, it's not bigger. It takes up a fraction of the space that Super Meat Boy does

 

[Mangue Surfer]

Lost Winds: Winter of the Melodias looks better and Cave Story is bigger.
Looks like "maybe it's possible but not worth it."

As much as I love Cave Story, it's not bigger. It takes up a fraction of the space that Super Meat Boy does

SMB isn't Trine, Wii isn't even HD and gameaudio.dat alone has 150MB (also, there's 20MB for directX purpose). If they worked in the audio, diminish the quality, nobody would notice (that much). Plus they could divide the game into three parts of $5.

I can think of solutions without much effort. Looks like is that they could but don't want. And think about Lost Winds. It's a 3D game with fresnel and all. It's on Wiiware.

 

[GeneticallyModifiedDucks]

No PS3? Too bad

Ok, I can understand not putting it onto the Wii because of the brandwidth limitation, but why not the PSN? I don't understand.

Mostly it's because when the inked the deal for the 360 it was in the contract not to put it on PSN.

I've already got the game on the PC but I would totally be down with a DS version. You can't tell me that the DS cartridges are less than 300 MB.

They are, actually. Pretty sure the largest is 256 MB. Unless they changed it again. (at first the cartridge limit was 64 MB)

 

[AboveUp]

SNIP

That is much faster than it used to be. Given the speed downloads go on now, it's kinda odd they didn't improve the size as well.

Odd indeed but my original post stands.

It stands as well as a cardhouse built on Yugioh and Munchkin cards. They're completely different kinds of games aimed at different audiences.

 

[Delusibeta]

I've already got the game on the PC but I would totally be down with a DS version. You can't tell me that the DS cartridges are less than 300 MB.

They are, actually. Pretty sure the largest is 256 MB. Unless they changed it again. (at first the cartridge limit was 64 MB)

I thought it was 512Mb?

It would definitely fit on a 3DS cart, at least.

 

[Formless12]

As both a PC and a Mac user I'm excited by the prospect of a Mac version thus allowing me to game anywhere with any of my comps. Of course the idea of a Mac having more capability to play a game then a dedicated gaming console makes me despise the Wii even more...

It's not that it can't run it, it just that the wii has a really steep limit

 

[C95J]

huh, super meat boy 33% off on XBLA! only 800MSP!?

A sneaky plan is hatching in my head...

 

[CrystalShadow]

Wiiware's file limit is that bad? Wow, you'd think they'd have learned something valuable by how Microsoft saw an explosion of new titles the second they upped their limit (I believe the original limit there was about 100MB).

Then again, the biggest downloadable hits on the Wii are emulated games. They take up 5MB at most on a PC, and even then the download rate is ridiculously slow on the Wii. Unless they've fixed that by now, but I somehow doubt that.

I think the problem is the Wii's storage is only 512mb.

I downloaded about 4 wiiware demos (even with Nintendo's insane size limit), and I already ran out of storage space.

Granted, with the SDHC update you can use a 32 GB SD card, but even so... It's messy, to say the least.

And downloads do indeed take a long time, though I'm not quite sure why, considering they seem capable of streaming reasonable quality video...

(Not to mention that a connection test using the Wii's browser suggested it was capable of about 3.5 megabit/second downloads. - That's not as fast as my internet connection speed, but still fast enough that it shouldn't take as long as it does to download a 40 mb game...)

 

[Balobo]

Lost Winds: Winter of the Melodias looks better and Cave Story is bigger.
Looks like "maybe it's possible but not worth it."

As much as I love Cave Story, it's not bigger. It takes up a fraction of the space that Super Meat Boy does

SMB isn't Trine, Wii isn't even HD and gameaudio.dat alone has 150MB (also, there's 20MB for directX purpose). If they worked in the audio, diminish the quality, nobody would notice (that much). Plus they could divide the game into three parts of $5.

I can think of solutions without much effort. Looks like is that they could but don't want. And think about Lost Winds. It's a 3D game with fresnel and all. It's on Wiiware.

Lost Winds is pretty short.

And they tried to compress the audio and stuff. Could only get it down to 50 MB. Haha.

Also, they do not want to go episodic.

 

[Mangue Surfer]

Lost Winds is pretty short.

And they tried to compress the audio and stuff. Could only get it down to 50 MB. Haha.

Also, they do not want to go episodic.

What you wanna say with big anyway? I finish the game in 7h. Lost wind 2 take me 5h. And the levels have two, three screens at maximum and are made by the same "materials" changing primary the colours and some little details like lava or salt. Play the same level for the 100 time to get a bandage make the game big in hours not in bites.

 

[Iscin]

Considering Super Meat Boy is already one big copout considering there are a dozen other flash games I can play for free which are more exciting... I really don't give a sh*t about your stupid game anyway.

Seriously... compare Super Meat Boy to other "indie" titles like Braid, is there even any comparison?

And simply how did SMB get a higher rating than 'Splosion Man anyway? Jesus Christ -_-

 

[Balobo]

Considering Super Meat Boy is already one big copout considering there are a dozen other flash games I can play for free which are more exciting... I really don't give a sh*t about your stupid game anyway.

Haha, really?

Seriously... compare Super Meat Boy to other "indie" titles like Braid, is there even any comparison?

Yes, actually. It's one of the most high quality games ever released, coming from somebody who absolutely loves Braid.

And simply how did SMB get a higher rating than 'Splosion Man anyway? Jesus Christ -_-

Because it's a better game...?

 

[zehydra]

Sad to see it not make it to WiiWare, but I gotta hand it to these guys for sticking to their guns.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Considering Super Meat Boy is already one big copout considering there are a dozen other flash games I can play for free which are more exciting... I really don't give a sh*t about your stupid game anyway.

Seriously... compare Super Meat Boy to other "indie" titles like Braid, is there even any comparison?

And simply how did SMB get a higher rating than 'Splosion Man anyway? Jesus Christ -_-

Have you actually played the game?

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

I'll stick with a better platformer like Super Mario Galaxy 2.

The two really can't be compared. It's like apples and purple monkey dishwashers.

Yea apples are fun and easy to come by and purple monkey dishwashers are challenging and rewarding.

Can you guess to which I am referring?