Jayden Williams at Aussie-Gamer.com writes: "Recently, Aussie-Gamer sat down with Tom Crago, CEO of Australian-based development studio Straight Right, in a trendy Melbourne café nestled on iconic Brunswick Street
If you haven’t heard of Straight Right before, they recently made international gaming news when word got out that the Australian studio was developing a port of BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 for Nintendo’s first HD console, Wii U.
During our interview, Aussie-Gamer chatted with Tom about Straight Right’s origins, how the studio grew out of sister company Tantalus, working with industry heavyweights BioWare and Nintendo and get a real developers perspective on making video games for Wii U.
Digitally Downloaded writes: "Of all the third party developers working on the Nintendo Wii U, there is one that stands out as going out of its way to take the unique features of the console; the Australian porting house, Straight Right."
Would be even more awesome if they priced it according to it age or at least made it the same price on all platforms.
It certainly would have sold a lot more on the Wii U if they had priced it the same as all of the other versions.
I can see why they priced it differently for the simple fact that they didn't have to spend nearly as much time on the other versions compared to the WiiU version. The other versions already had the basic game developed where as the WiiU had to be started from scratch.
More work went into the WiiU version, so the WiiU version cost more, is how publishers see it.
Similar thing I think happened with the Mass Effect deal, the 3 games were already made on the other systems so its just a repackaging thing with minor touch ups. The WiiU version would have been like porting 3 games from the ground up which would have cost to much and settled with just porting 1 game. Just my thoughts on how those worked out.
Its to bad really. I felt burned after I bought a Wii, so I'm not going to dive right into a WiiU without seeing the benefits and if future titles continue to play out, with Nintendo getting the short end of the stick, I can wait until some price drops
So, according to you, the quality of a game is in part based on its price? You would actually have more fun playing the game if it was cheaper?
What a load of nonsense. The amount of fun you have with a game has nothing to do with its price. Whether you buy it or not is in part dependent on price, of course, but not whether it's an enjoyable game or not.
They're making a fortune by doing these ports, same with Treyarch. All the hard work is already done, they just have to take their time and polish it up. Thumbs up.
As far as I can tell Straight Right doesn't release its financial results - it's not a public company.
So how do you come to the conclusion that it's "making a fortune?" Do you work there? Do you have inside access?
Or are you just making an assumption?
Nobody works for free. Someone must be getting paid or they simply wouldn't be porting these games. It's obviously profitable enough to fund additional games and they're getting high Metacritic scores, look at Deus Ex Human Revolution on Wii U
I'm gonna buy deus ex on WiiU. I tried it when it first came out on PC but didn't like it for some reason. But i'll give it another shot on WiiU.
The crew at DigiBytes got the opportunity for an exclusive interview with Straight Right CEO Tom Crago and they talked about Shift 2 Unleashed, Mass Effect 3: Special Edition for Wii U and even asked about their latest project.
Nintendo Insider writes:
Having indicated that they were preparing to reveal their next Wii U project, Straight Right have now backtracked saying that they can’t discuss it.
Wow this site is turning into lets hate Nintendo site. I wonder what it will be next as it seems when someone brings out a new console its all doom and gloom. Last year was the PSV now its the WiiU I wonder if it will be the PS4 or Next Xbox next.
Turning into???
This has been a Nintendo hate site for as long as I can remember.
Though it's admittedly becoming a lot worse now with outright lying and misinformation.
Ive not noticed that a few years ago it was all against the PS3 then Kinect came out and it was all against Kinect then the 3DS then the PSV and now the WiiU.
Anyone would think this site was a Sports site where people just spit there dummy out over the smallest things.
ya, basically the game will be canned.. With PS4 incoming, more & more ppl will lose interest in wii u even if they launch some heavy hitting 1st party titles.. Good luck
Now where are all of the people who flock like bugs to a torchlight when someone speaks ill of the cpu?
Eh...but they havent actually "developed" anything yet, a port of an old game dosent count.
They opened up in 2011 and the only game from them was the ME3 port
No offense but i'm really not going to take their word for it, the way I see it is "Yeah it's great...so if you want to give us work Nintendo, publish a game for us <wink wink> then we won't mind"
Have to admit, seeing the comparison of ME3 on Wii U vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3, I commend Straight Right for having been able to port the game and provide extra gamepad features too, at such a short time. Not to mention the graphics is at par with the 360 (better than PS3 in fact), albeit some framerate issues.
in time Wii U will prove itself.
So yeah it looks like they didn't mess with the guts of the game, they simply got it working on the Wii U.
Here's a quote of what they said......"We certainly didn’t want to put ourselves in a situation where we risked breaking anything"
So basically their job was to successfully port and add gamepad functionality.
That's why the game has the same hiccups as the 360/PS3 version. When the 360 would choke on the game, so would the Wii U. The PS3 version was constantly choking, but overall it seems whatever limitations the 360 hardware was coded around the Wii U had to deal with as well.