Suda51 discusses No More Heroes 2

It was heavily scrutinised for being on the Wii? First I've heard of that.

I find it difficult to comprehend that the game's potential would have been greater on the PS3/X360. A lot of the faults were design faults, not hardware limitations or anything like that.

I personally think the little Wii remote interactions (eg: sword swipes, wrestling moves) made it a title I'd rather on the Wii than anywhere else.

Visuals are the only thing I could see getting a boost on other systems.

What Benza said.

NMH was never censored by our ratings board. Rising Star Games, or whoever published it, chose to make the PAL released based off the Japanese released, not the US release. The Japanese release was always bloodless, thus we got the bloodless version too.

And to those saying the game would have been better on a high-definition systems; every game could theoretically be better, but that doesn’t mean it would actually end up being better.

No More Heroes was a relatively low budget niche title. Developing for the Wii is significantly cheaper than developing for the Xbox360, and the PS3 is even more expensive again.

The reason you don’t see a plethora of artistically challenging and bizarre games on these platforms is because the financial risk is too high. A vast majority of publishers will look at No More Heroes and give it the bird. Why should they invest into a title that probably wont sell?

Fact of the matter is that losses on the Wii are less impactful than they are on other systems (see: Free Radical and Factor 5). That is largely why the platform was chosen.

And, as I said, most of the criticisms against No More Heroes were due to a sloppy engine and some gameplay design quirks. What would a high-definition system add to the experience? Crisper graphics. What about the gameplay? More fleshed out city? Not a system issue, but a design choice.