| Zucas said: Well this hasn't been unusual for Nintendo consoles. Nintendo is the only developer in the world that has games that can dominate all others. Great for them but not so great for anyone else. But, it does seem to be getting better as our sales are showing more and more 3rd party games are selling better on the Wii. I mean up til Mario and Sonic at the Olympics on the Wii, the best selling 3rd party game on a Nintendo platform was Street Fighter II. So at least progress but its hard to take down the most powerful developer in the world. The other consoles are lucky to not have that competition. Mrstickball- yea it's not great for a leading platform but it would be worse for a losing one. Because if it was a smaller userbase then that leaves less to be sold while even if those percentages stay it still leaves a large portion of sales left over for the rest. So I'd bet if that same scenario was for the GC, which it probably was and worse, the situation was probably not as good as it is with Wii. But it's something that needs to be worked out in the long run, but there isn't ANYTHING Ninty can do about it. Nor should they do anything about it. It's up to the 3rd party developers to try and capitalize and get sales. They have to try to beat out Nintendo. Good luck but its there responsibility. That Ninty is even trying to help them is nothing short of a good grace considering they are their competition. But they are going to have to make "Nintendo level" games as Ubisoft put it to do that. Good luck. |
True, but this topic isn't about 1st vs. 3rd party sales, it's about how so few titles (for all the systems) completely dominate. The situation is just more skewed on the Wii than on the other two. Although crunching the numbers (see my last post) it still seems to favor the Wii...
What's REALLY concerning about this situation (for all systems) is that if you don't have a hit, you're not going to sell many titles. In light of that, is it wise to keep gambling with higher development costs? We're seeing more revenue, but not increasing profits. Or, as the NPD itself puts it, "a rising tide isn't lifting all boats."
But I'm drifting a bit off-topic here.
| Darth Tigris said: Yeah, those of us on VGC that look at the sales estimates here AND have been paying attention should've been aware of this for a while now. The Wii is a toy, folks. A TOY! A great selling, sometimes fun to play TOY! And there's nothing wrong with that. Except . . . . . . well, reports like this. People are buying it as if it were a toy instead of the GAME system that it is. So what are 3rd party devs supposed to do??? For the first time in the history of consoles, the top selling console does not sell 3rd party games the way that a top selling console should. What will that mean for the future health of the industry? A perfect storm is brewing . . . |
Er...would you care to provide some proof of these assertions? Because this article doesn't seem to be it (check my response to Mr. Stickball.
BHR-3 said:
|
i even think that ps3 might be able to catch up to the Wii's milly sellers i even made a thread about it Something to Ponder Wii million sellers vs PS3 milion sellers it's going to be tough to over take the 360 milly sellersSee my last post as well.
