Xen said:
fastyxx said:
MANUELF said:
36 of the top 50 in Others is for Nintendo consoles if than doesnt change the mind of the third partys I dont know what can. |
I don't agree at all. 19 of those 36, including 10 of the top charting 12 Wii/DS titles are Nintendo-published games. And you can add one more in each of those categories for Sega-developed Sonic and Mario, which, of course, has Mario in the title. Take out the power of Activision/guitar Hero brand name and you get not a lot else.
You have Carnival Games, a Wii-sports ripoff and Ubisoft's wierdly popular Imagine games. and that's about it for that top 50. What in there inspires any non-superpowers (i.e. NOT E.A./Ubi/Activision) to actually go crazy in Nintendo development. They are always going to get crushed by the first party titles. Yes, they can make money on shovelware, but it just doesn't seem like good business right now to invest a lot of cash into developing for Nintendo platforms if you are a smaller publisher - again, other than cheapie ports or shovelware games.
It's easy to look at all the DS and Wii games and have your opinion, but if you really look at it, it shows another story for the 3rd parties.
|
Couldn't have said it better.
|
That's why there is WiiWare. Smaller publishers can get their games out on cheap budgets while still making reletively good games.
