Will 3rd parties put more effort into Wii 2011?

[Veder Juda]

bmmb1 said:

Short answer: No

 

Long Answer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

 

On a more serious note (though the above was also serious, kind of): The Wii will continue getting some support from the usual suspects (Capcom, Activision, Ubisoft), some crap-quality support from the usual suspects (EA and some others), but that's it.

Regarding sales of Epic Mickey and Goldeneye paving the way for further support:

1. From the moment someone decides on developing a new game, I think it takes at aleast 2 years before it's done if the game is to be of reasonable quality. So 2011 is a goner as far as any effect from recent 3rd party sales.

2. Regardless of which numbers you actually believe, NPD or VGC, I would wait for NPD numbers for these games before making such declarations, since those will more probably be the numbers the media will quote and so most developers would look at... (again, regardless of which numbers will actually be the correct ones)

This reminds me of Monster Hunter 3, a game that might have convinced Capcom that they should be putting more AAA content on the Wii, and since that game came out in 2009, there's a chance Capcom might have something on the tail end of the year for the Wii; of course, they haven't announced any such game yet.  Also, that might make it a late-2011 release in Japan, while the rest of the world gets it in 2012.