Its been 3 years now. 55 million consoles sold around the world. The Wii is undoubtly winning the console war until now. Yet, Nintendo just dosent see a single 3rd party blockbuster hitting its system. 55 million owners have to wait for first party games so they have something decent to play.
3 years now, and we´re still waiting the big budget projects from 3rd parties that a 55mil installed base deserves.
Now im not dismissing games like Little King Story or A Boy and His blob. But we gotta be honest: these are small niche games. Nothing wrong with then, except the fact that these games are supposed to sell few copies due to its niche nature, and when they generate this expected low numbers publishers still uses it as an argument for giving bigger wii projects the red light.
And we cant forget that games like Little King Story and Boy/Blob are little oasis among a HUGE wasteland of horrible crappy terrible dreadful games that the Wii has been graced with.
And yet, publishers LOVE to come out in public and cry out how games dont sell on the wii.
That´s a lie
Good wii games DO SELL A LOT. Look at wii fit and Wii Sports resort. Amazing games, sell a lot. You could blame it on the "Wii" brand? Just a little. Wii music had Wii on the name and sold poorly, because it was a sad excuse for a game. If your game is REALLY GOOD, it will sell a lot on the wii.
I mentioned two really good wii games. Both of em were first party games.
Lets see what 3rd parties are shoving down the wii´s throat until now, shall we?
- spin off of a famous series
- port of other consoles games
- wii sports/Carnival games clone
- new IPs made by a 5 people team that fails to accomplish anything at all.
All of the above are small, recicled, terrible games, made with short time frames and constrained budgets.
The truth is, 3rd parties dont have the right to say that they cant sell games on Wii, because they didnt even tried to!!!!
What gives?
Why the bigger installed base gets the worst, cheapest, roughest games?
It should be the other way around! We should get bigger and badder games. We´re the bigger market right here!
Now these publishers are already getting a little of what they deserve: they´re still investing (a ridiculously low amount of) money on the wii and not getting the profit they´re hope for. And that´s because the consumer is alredy tired of the amount of crap they unload on us.
But we need more.
We need to tell this publishers that we dont need No More Crappy Games on the Wii
We dont need no more rails shooters
We dont need no more carnival games.
We dont need no more downgraded ports. No more test games. No more niche games that dont sell because they are niche and publishers still cry out that it didnt sold like Modern Warfare 2.
What we need is blockbuster games for the wii.
1-on-1 motion control!
Games done with time, care and creativity.
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