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redspear on 13 October 2008
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disolitude said:
redspear said:
disolitude said:
The wii sold most by appealing to the mass market. This is true...

Kind of how a toyota corolla and honda civic sell more than BMW and Mercedes. Yet those 2 car manufacturers get much more press and praise by majority of car enthusiasts.

Also Wii has mostly been neglected by 3rd party publishers...so maybe its a bitter-sweet victory for nintendo...and wii gamers in general.

I mean...Resident Evil 5, GTA4, Final Fantasy 13...all missing the Wii. Those are some industry leaders right there...

 

 Disolitude,

 

All of those games were announced before the start of this gen and were well in to production when the Wii train really became apparant and we are still waiting for them except for GTA4. The dynamics over the next couple of years but the DS didn't have decent third party support until its 3rd year and it has taken a while for that to get a chance to mature. The Wii is also following a similiar path...except that it is happening faster this time around.

 

After those games are released what will hapen. Of course HD consoles will continue to see strong support this is partially thanks to the unique path Nintendo took. Trust me if the Wii was HD like the 360 or PS3 there support would dwindle to a lot less then what they will get.

If wii was HD? what if ps360 had motion controls?

also, it doesn't take 3 years to make a wii title. Capcom had a chance to make something for the wii that would rival resident evil 5 by now...and they are making a half assed port of dead rising. This was announced well after wii got the majority share. Im not saying that wii support wont pick up...but we are 2 years in here...and this christmas season there will be a huge drought of 3rd party wii software.

Not every developer wants to downgrade their games only to have to put motion controls to offer something unique. Especially not the elite developers by the looks of things...as no 3rd party developer has even bothered to put their best teams to make something Wii specific.

So while I fully aknowledge wii is the #1 selling console...untill the industry leading people start making games on it, it is not an industry leader.

Also, all this "innovation always wins" bullshit is just that... Sega innovated more than Nintendo and Sony combined in the 16, 32 bit and 128bit console generations...and look where they ended up. How about Virtual boy? 64DD? Those were innovative products...

Well It doesn't take 3 years to make a DS game either but it took at least that long for decent third party support to show up on the system without all hte cheap cash ins that applied.

 

You missed my point about the Wii being HD. I said because the Wii is in fact very different than the PS3/360 it allows for developers to continue making games for these system that are only for these systems. If the Wii was similiar in graphics power than you would have seen a much larger jump of third party software by now.

Similiar to the PSP/DS much more money was initially locked up in develeopment with the PSP games couldn't just be ported over. So they finish their projects and release them to hype and sell them then they started working on decent DS games.  At tye same time though the PSP has an install base capable of supporting a few big games with decent sales so it was far from abandoned.

Companies want to sell games. And until at least the end of the year the 360/PS3 market was bigger than the Wii but come the end of next year that dynamic will be different which means that if these companies want to sell the most games they will have to start putting their Alist teams on the Wii. All it will take is a few major third party releases that are successful. I don't think that is going to be a problem.