Third parties were never a problem...

[jammy2211]

Squilliam said:

jammy2211 said:
It's all pretty true.

Whether upping their marketing budget and trying to take on Nintendo (And supposed other third parties) on a saturating market with a growing second hand market is viable remains to be seen.

Third parties will be upping their anti as the userbase grows, what sort of software this restuls in, and whether it reaps the benefits some would like to believe the Wii offers remains to be seen.

The games which will be most heavily advertised are the ones believed to be able to be enjoyed by the highest proportion of Wii users. So yes, the games that do hit that mark will probably be wide appeal, excellent titles that will probably sell a load of copies (If they judge it right).

 

 It's just whether third parties are going to be quick to put up the money to research the software developement / marketing and then market it. I'm sure they'll all dip their toe beyond their current approach of releasing games and hoping to get sales from the core audience via strong press reception and from the expanded audience by shelf-shopping buyers.

 I'm quite looking forward to it really, companies trying to actually take Nintendo down at what they seem to do best. I can't see many third parties having a greatly positive experience from upping their marketing and trying to get the gigantic sales of Nintendo's big hitters, but the financial benefits that potentially reaps are hard for them to ignore.

 When you start thinking about third party release like this, scale though, it does put the whole Wii developement costs being cheaper argument type thing as irrellevent. Hmm.