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Legend11 on 04 August 2007
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naznatips said:
Legend11 said:

I remember reading postings from people saying that E3 would be the place where the Wii would start to see a huge wave of better games from third parties, better meaning they wouldn't be the same old PS2 ports, minigames, and budget titles that many third parties seem to be dumping on the Wii in order to turn over a quick buck on the system. So what happened?

So far the last few games I've seen announced for the system for 2008 have indeed been the same types of games (a PS2 multi-platform game and a budget title for instance). So why are games like Zack and Wiki and Boogie so few and far between and it seems that many third parties are still putting their top teams on games for the PC/360/PS3? Why are third parties instead putting spinoffs and jnr. titles on the Wii? Will it be another year before that wave finally starts to hit or is this what we can expect for the next few years?


Well anyone who claimed E3 would be when you would see a change was kidding themselves.  Developers anounced a shift in focus less than 2 months before E3, and no one announces new games at E3 without anything to show.  Really, barely anyone announced any new games at E3 at all... which was odd to say the least.

Certainly Wii developer support is slowly raising, but I will repeat what I have said some hundreds of times now "By the end of 2008 the Wii have a noticably dominant share of big new IPs from 3rd party developers."  They will never have the dominant share of old IPs.  However, I also think many of these old IPs are dying this generation. 

I think it's asking too much of 3rd parties to expect them to be able to shift focus to a platform they expected to completely bomb within the first year of it's life.  Even Wii games take more than a year to make good.  Meanwhile, I will sit back and watch as generic FPS after generic FPS flops in the over-saturated FPS market (The Darkness).


If you thought The Darkness is generic you've obviously never played it.