Locked: THQ - Wii is a nightmare for third parties, it's a Monopoly box in the clos

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routsounmanman on 01 June 2009

...then the nightmare of all for third parties, frankly, is the Wii. The Wii is a Monopoly box in a closet! I've got my Wii Sports and I'm good! I take it out, get the family around, we flail around for a couple hours, and we're happy until next month when we take it out, or maybe for junior's birthday, I'm going to buy him a Mario game." - Danny Bilson, SVP of creative development at THQ

Mr. Bilson went on to discuss Wii support, and how THQ was at one time bringing over hardcore titles, but have since stopped that.

"(We plan to) greenlight more Wii games: family, casual, get everyone on the couch games. I'm a big believer in that. Right now, we're not moving hardcore stuff to the Wii. We were; we stopped it, just because we're a little risk averse. I want to be with the culture of the Monopoly box in the closet – I've got to feed them. I've got to get them to want to buy another game, because they're not the gamers that are looking forward to the next thing next week in putting in the pre-orders and all that."

http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=84557

I really can't understand how developers / publishers think anymore. Even if THQ is right and 3rd party sell nothing on Wii, even if all Wii install base is casuals buying no games, how can you possibly OUTRIGHT INSULT the very customer group you're aiming at? It's a basic marketing / business principle!!!

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Majin-Tenshinhan on 01 June 2009

It's like the whole world has resorted to blatant trolling :x

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griffinA on 01 June 2009

I'd say that's thanks to the reception of deadly creatures and the economy. But basing your decision on deadly creatures?? That game wouldn't sell on any system.

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Me on 01 June 2009

unfortunately - i've beginning to think along the same lines, the only people I know at work (apart from myself) who actually switch the Wii on at regular intervals these days is the women on diets with their Wii fits etc.

Really sad cos I love the controller and two thirds of my current gens game collection are Wii games.

I feel us hardcore Wii gamers are a dying breed.

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goddog on 01 June 2009

Majin-Tenshinhan said:
It's like the whole world has resorted to blatant trolling :x

but when the whole world says it is it still trolling?

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Daileon on 01 June 2009

I'd say... Nice move, THQ, we don't need your shitty games.

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Dazkarieh on 01 June 2009

LOL... by hardcore stuff they mean... Deadly Creatures??? LOL

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HappySqurriel on 01 June 2009

In completely unrelated news THQ has posted a loss of $431 Million in 2009 due to the rising costs associated with the high development cost and poor sales of their HD games ...

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joora on 01 June 2009

Well, if you want an AAA game on the targeted console the first thing is to invest enough money in that game. I don't see that THQ did that. De Blob was good, but i doubt it was expensive to make. And i bet that they are making nice profit on it atm.
Deadly creatures was a niche title, and we all know that niche title can't sell great amounts.

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