Why have we seen ports of Bully/LA Noire on Nintendo consoles before a port of a mainline GTA?

[Mysterio79]

I don't understand this weird test thing if that is the case. Wouldn't the best test be to release your best selling products instead of games with lukewarm sales to begin with, so you can, I dunno, make more money? Manhunt 2 and a bully port made its way to Wii, not to mention la noire on Switch.

Note: I'm not talking about any GTA in specific as it has been ported and re-released many times since it exploded in popularity during the ps2 days. I realize there was a top down spinoff title on DS, but even that seemed strange to me when they could have easily ported the gta3, vc, and sa to the Wii.

 

[Possum Armada]

They were probably easier ports.

 

[Bandage]

You need a test game for your test game if you want to bring over your test game.

 

[Platy]

Easier to port because the games are smaller. GTA games are huge o just the testing for bugs takes a gazillions of time

 

[Deleted member 16876]

Rockstar North probably didn't like Nintendo after the Body Harvest 64 mess.

 

[Kolx]

Because these games are smaller and easier to port maybe?

 

[9-Volt]

Yeah this is a big mystery. Why should a controversial and scandalous game like Manhunt 2 be for Nintendo gamers but not GTA games? GTA San Andreas on Wii made sense more than anything else.

 

[Durante]

They were probably easier ports.

Click to shrink...

That would be my first guess.

 

[Mysterio79]

They were probably easier ports.

Click to shrink...

What does that even mean?

The Wii couldn't handle PS2 games? Isn't the objective here to make money?

Manhunt 2 on Wii wasn't even a port it was an original game and one of the most violent games ever made. Even more baffling.

 

[Frankie_baby]

I was always of the opinion that a wii/psp san andreas stories should have been an absolute no brainer but rockstar in their infinite wisdom thought Chinatown wars for DS made more sense and it's pretty clear it blatantly didnt

 

[Bob Beat]

Holiday 2018? Probably easier and cheaper. They were already doing it, they get to practice on the switch, etc

I'm surprised at the lack of some other ports. But I guess we'll know by September if 3rd parties will do less then the minimum.

 

[Frankie_baby]

Also could there be any pettiness resulting from Nintendo not being interested in GTA on the n64 back in the days when DMA worked closely as a partner with them?

 

[ZhugeEX]

Because the developer decided to bring those games over.