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trestres said:
The real problem is the amount of crap coming out and the misinformed customer buying it. Quality titles will have to compete with turds. And there's a far greater share of turds than quality titles so far, and none of them gets advertised. Hell even sometimes, turds get more advertising than good games.
If a game has legs, then obviously its winning the word of mouth battle so there must be people who like it.
Core gamers are buying the games they find out that exist, but even then, none of these games have a comparable amount of effort poured in in comparison with the HD games. Wii core owners are also likely to own a secondary console, an HD console. That's why multiplatform core games tend to perform worse on the Wii, since there's no reason for core gamers to buy the gimped version. There hasn't been a case where Wii got a core multiplat game without it being gimped. Also, most Wii core gamers got only a limited amount of money so if we consider that the majority also owns an HD console, if you compare this holiday seasons line ups, the most probable thing is that their money went to their HD console.
Core gamers make up a smaller proportion of the Wii audience so they are much harder to target if you're not Nintendo. Advertising is expensive.
Casual multiplatform games on the other hand tend to perform better on the Wii, because of the misinformed customers. Games like GH are starting to sell better on the wii than even the 360.
Misinformed? How so?
Games can sell on the wii, Nintendo proved that to everyone. Be it a core or a casual franchise, if it's properly advertised, has some quality behind and it's a cool concept it will sell well.
Advertisement is expensive, why advertise when you can't easily reach your audience.
Almost 8 million core gamers that bought SMG or SSBB can't be wrong. Hell, 5 million Zelda TP owners can't be wrong either.
And the millions that bought Wii Fit and Wii Play, MKWii/M&S. Nintendo knows how to market their games and knows how to create hype. Even though, as of late they are sending their games to die without advertising, but that's their problem after all.
Third parties that don't take a risk and put effort in their games can only blame themselves. They should also stop copying every Nintendo idea out there, and come with a good concept themselves. When this happens, we might start seeing core gamers spending money on their Wii's rather than their HD consoles. Casuals will also learn to differentiate between crap and a good game, so 3rd party casual games will need to be different enough to differentiate themselves from the HUGE amount of crap coming out. That crap is the one guilty for the low sales overall. Too much to chose from and too many misinformed customers.
The publishers are very conservative. They don't make risky choices...
Best solution would be Nintendo limiting the amount of games released a company can have in a certain time.
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