Hardcore shooter market is too narrow!

Ubisoft will likely steer clear of hardcore shooters because the market is too narrow for it to be a viable business choice said Rainbow Six Vegas 2 game designer Phil Therien.
In a LiveText Interview with our sister site Eurogamer.net Therien said they would like to be able to please both sides but " compromises have to be made."
" We have some ideas to improve on the situation though - keep in mind however that we want our games to be accessible to as many people as possible, otherwise we just couldn' t keep making games."
Therien had been asked whether the company planned to reintroduce more realistic shooters such as the original Ghost Recon on current-generation hardware.
He also revealed that there won' t be a demo version of Vegas 2.
" We took the decision to spend our time on polishing the game and the demo option was cut," he said.
" It' s really time-consuming to create a demo and we needed the dev time to finish our game."
He also explained that four-player co-op was reduced to two-player because the single-player levels couldn' t easily support four players.
Therien says that there are virtually no differences between the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Vegas 2 - and at the moment there are no plans for working on the Nintendo Wii.
The complete LiveText interview with Phil Therien can be read here.

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This makes me wanna cry. Whats wrong with hard games? this makes me wanna cry

hardcore shooters too narrow, that' s the whole point of it. People who play (almost exclusively) these sort of games just want lots of guns and lots of things to shoot at, they don' t want nothing cerebral.

People who play (almost exclusively) these sort of games just want lots of guns and lots of things to shoot at, they don' t want nothing cerebral.

When have videogames ever been cerebral?

When have videogames ever been cerebral?

Yeah and that' s a board game, it' s been played long before videogames ever existed. What about an original videogame?

I dont mind a game being cerebral and i love shooters but i dont think a game needs to be cerebral ..

The hardcore shooter genre isn' t narrow enough. I want every person who purchases Call of Duty 6 to undergo a mandatory intelligence quotient examination, and be administered a pitch-sensitive mic that prevents the high-pitched rich kiddies from bugging the hell out of you when you' re trying to use tactics.

So Halo 3 and COD4 don' t count as hardcore shooters? Last time I checked they were on the top of the charts for sales. It sounds more like this guy is trying to come up with some sort of excuses for Vegas 2.

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