For the most part, I just think Third Parties are just using the Wii and DS to make a quick buck and support their other projects. It is also what other people are saying. That they don't know or want to make games based on the Wii model. But that's no excuse. You can make a perfectly good game on the Wii and it doesn't have to be like anything Nintendo is making or 'Waggle' Mario Galaxy showed you can make an Action/Platformer with limited (or no) Waggle. And you can Certainly make a full RPG or many other kinds of games with no Motion or pointer features at all. A few third party games have come out like this and some good solid Third Party games are being made like this now and are coming soon (Little King Story, Oboro Muramasa Youtouden). And frankly, the Wii is the most versitile system out there for perifierals and system add-ons, but Third Party alienation has pretty much killed that idea. We should have seen 10 different Wii Zapper games by now, but we're only seeing ports and one original Resident Evil game.
So what it really comes down to is indavidual groups inside Third Parties want to work with more powerful graphics and 'not on Nintendo'. They have said it time and time again, and so they put 80% of their development funds and manpower into PS3 and XBOX360. Whereas 20% of those games will sell millions like they're all aiming for. But as for Wii, this same group complains they can't sell anything on it, whereas they only put 10% of their effort into it. And as such...they only get 10% of the profits out of it.
Why do they keep complaining that Nintendo gets 90% of the earnings off the Wii? Maybe because they never put more than 10% into it from the beginning. And continue to just stand 100 feet away pointing and complaining while Nintendo makes bank.
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