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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Right, but realize that Nintendo doesn't have a whole lot more 1st party titles on the way, clearing the way for 3rd party success. Take a look at the DS - at first it was all 1st party games for the first 2-3 years, then 3rd parties dominated the system, with only an occassional 1st party title coming through. It seems a smiliar path is being created for the Wii
