fastyxx said:
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.
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False logic.
3rd parties haven't put a AAA effort on Wii to combat Nintendo directly so how exactly is Nintendo crushing non-existant efforts?
Sounds me like you are assuming the only profitable path for 3rd parties is are low budget casual oriented titles. I'm not saying you aren't correct but what high budget efforts do we have to compare that with? None. They haven't even tried yet so why assume it's 'yi luan tou shi'? - inevitable failure.
To me it shows an open door for 3rd parties. A blue oecean in a blue oecean if you will. An untapped market of potential. If 3rd parties are scared of high budget titles on Wii against Nintendo then don't make a bigh budget Mario clone or high budget kart game.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
