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CAL4M1TY on 17 October 2008
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frybread said:

'09 is the year of the Wii.

Quality games take 2-4 years to develop. Publishers pretty much forced developers to switch to Wii in 2007, a system they previously ignored, so that's why we're still waiting.

'09 is coming up, and we have MotionPlus on the way, so we'll be enjoying accurate motion gaming while other systems will be using old-fashioned controls.

 

I disagree, I would say the year of gaming for the Wii is actually 2010.

 

You're right about quality games usually requiring 2-4 years to develop, BUT that's assuming that developers have the tools already in place to make games first. That's why Gears and Resistance sequels can get popped out after only 2 years of development, because they have the foundation (gameplay, unreal engine, what ever engine Resistance uses).

Since no one believed the Wii would be a success, I doubt many developers would have started good 3rd party projects on the Wii (that they weren't originally planning) until 07 or even this year, so it'd be unlikely we see any period of time in 2009 where the Wii gets consecutive great 3rd party titles.

On topic: When people say Wii doesn't get 3rd party support, we mean 3rd party support for games GAMERS would actually play. So you can take out 99% of the mini game collection games as well as randomly crappy sports titles, in fact all the shovel ware. Once they are all taken out, you're looking at less then 100 (at best) 3rd party titles GAMERS COULD (not necessarily would) play.