Sega Says House of the Dead 4 Can be Ported to Wii
In a recent 1up interview, Sega's Emiko Sunaga said that House of the Dead 4 could be done on the Nintendo Wii. He said it would be difficult but not too difficult, and he even referred to the process as porting. The reason the game isn't on home consoles, or Wii, is because Sega still wants you to play it in the arcade.
Bringing HOTD4 completely would be difficult, but we don't think it's "too" difficult to deliver HOTD4 and make it enjoyable on Wii. HOTD4 runs on the excellent SEGA Lindbergh arcade board and while it's very powerful, the concern isn't how difficult it would be to port it to the Wii. SEGA has always had a history of bringing a variety of our latest arcade games faithfully to home systems.
Our feeling was that it's hard to find HOTD2 and HOTDIII in arcades nowadays, while HOTD4 is still currently available. By delivering the series to users with the new HOTD 2 & 3 Return for Wii, if users play and like this title, our hope is that they will feel compelled to go an arcade and enjoy HOTD4. - Emiko Sunaga
A few weeks a go I posted a rant about idiot gamers who love to deny that a game can be ported. That rant was the direct result of a nasty argument I had on a forum with some loser who thought he could tell Sega what they could or couldn't do with their game - In this case it was HOTD4. As you can see Sega can port the game to the Wii if they ever felt like it, but this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
The moral of the story here is SHUT THE HELL UP about where games can and can't be ported.
