Hey, Wii apologists, let’s see you try to wriggle your way out of this one.

Remember that rumor you heard that the iPhone has more processing power than the Wii?  Anyway, it looks like Capcom has decided to bring a portable iteration of Street Fighter 4 to the iPhone and iPad, completely skipping over the Nintendo Wii.  Let’s face it, the game is going to be terrible.  I mean, come on: it’s an iPhone, where your thumbs will be covering half of the screen.  It just seems odd that it wouldn’t logically make the jump to Nintendo.

Yoshinori Ono, the creator of Street Fighter, was asked back in 2008 about the possibility of SF4 coming to Wii, Ono said, “As long as people want to play Street Fighter 4, it could be on anything — even this iPhone, for that matter. It really could be on any platform that could support it. So let’s just see what happens.”

He was being asked about the Wii. And his response talked about being “on any platform that could support it”.  While there could be any number of reasons why the game is not getting a Nintendo port, it just makes you wonder.  I mean, there could technically be behind-closed-doors negotiations and concessions that Nintendo isn’t willing to make to get the license on the Wii.  It could be that hardcore games typically struggle to sell on the Wii.

Or it could just mean that the Wii is an amped up Gamecube and unable to handle the game in its current form.

You know, I don’t relish trashing the Wii.  I wish it was another weapon in the hardcore gamer’s arsenal of gaming consoles.  But news like this makes me glad I took my Wii back to Best Buy before the return policy expired.