Reggie: Third parties don't "get" the Wii, more

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Falcon095 said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

NYANKS said:
Not meaning to be inflammatory, but I can understand third parties getting a mixed message when games like Carnival Games and Wii Sports/Play/Fit are among the best games on the console and games that are more "serious" seem to be missed, NMH, Okami, apparently COD: World at war.....

If Ninty changes their marketing a little, they could do a lot to dispel this, but they don't. And quite frankly, the only visibly hurt by this are some of the Wii consumers, so I can't fault them for continuing to push stuff like their Wii Series, Animal Crossing, and even Flash focus and brain Training for the DS.

Carnival Games is one of the best games on the console?

Also, the most "serious" game in the world is Brain Training, and it sells better than all your favorite games.

There are 3rd parties making amazing games for the Wii, and they are being rewarded with good sales, good reviews, and artistic credibility.  Anybody who disagrees has bad taste in games.

You forgot the most important thing from a business view profit those developers don't have to pray everynight because their games ain't need to sell at least 1m in order to make a profit, with 300-500k they are more than happy (ex, NMH)

 

The big gaming companies can't live on these kind of games...

That's like saying Big movies studio should cater to 2 million$ movies on which they make 100k$ profit...

Companies like EA, Activision need to generate a lot of revenue and profit to sustain their size, if they had to cater only to very small budget games they would need to produces hundreds of them and the market woudn't absorb them and all those games would end up being very similar ( because they don't have hundreds of new games ideas..)

Like it or not the HD consoles are bringing games to be like movies and every year we will have a few very high budget games that are destined to be blockbusters, the same way we do with movies...

You make a few very high budget games, you market the shit out of them, and they sell very well. That's the business model of the book industry, the movie industry and the music industry and it's proven to work...

The more I read the arguments of some of the Wii boys the more it feels like reading the latest critic of an art movie, destined for a much smaller audience, that may very well be very good, but just doesn't have that mass market appeal.

I mean Okami, De Blob and others might kick ass but it's like saying only movies like 'My big fat greek wedding' should be made ( which by the way is a kick ass movie) and movies like Batman, LOTR, Harry Potter and co should no longer be made...