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Mummelmann on 24 February 2009
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Lolcislaw said:
Mummelmann said:
They sell heaps of their own software but many titles have sold quite poorly, especially the typical "core" titles as people like to put it.
And while the PS360 combo get to share series like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Need for Speed and so forth there isn't much to suggest that developers will release games from the main series on the Wii, and this probably has to do with both the rather lukewarm sales of many 3rd party titles and the massive difference in programming/hardware.
In total, the Wii moves a lot more software than any other but it seems more adept at moving certain types of software and less adept at other types (many of which are your typical 3rd party effort).
Most things I hear announced are either spin-off's or widely different versions (talking about 3rd party titles from PS360 to Wii, of course).
The Blue Ocaen strategy works like a charm, that much has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt but it seems to have come with a catch in this case.
This is neither directly good nor bad for any of the three consoles, it simply bodes for a very different gen this time around!

 

Well but this can also be said about the 360 and PS3 that software sales come mainly from big blockbusters, and proved genres. This was always the case that some games sold better then other on the systems. Looking at the data "big" Wii 3rd party games are successful, and many smaller ones also have generated great sales, 3rd party support is steadily increasing from 2006 and its far better then N64 or GC and it will only get better because of Wii's position in the market.

On topic, i think Release of M+ will have dual effect, there will be loads of shitty games that are cheap cash ins on new control scheme (Just like after Wii release) but i think there will be a plethora of studios that will want to work with something as exiting as M+ to deliver new gaming experience. So im overall pretty positive about Wii's future.

 

Of course it applies to other consoles as well. And the same goes for support; anyone not intent upon supporting one platform by now probably won' this gen (like Valve with the PS3 for instance). 3rd party support on the Wii is certainly more present than it was with the GC or N64, which is no wonder seeing how the thing sells, the main issue most people have is rather the quality of the 3rd party support and not so much the number of titles (or percentage of employees assigned one platform).

All this remains to be seen, of course, which I'm sure all of us realize. If the big 3rd party titles (like the ones mentioned earlier) are still absent by this year's end, there aren't many ways of interpreting the position the developers in question have taken.

My biggest hope for this year is more support for the PC from Indie developers or small timers and also more diversity from the big ones (Valve, Epic, Activision/Blizzard, EA, Ubi etc). I also hope I can scrape up enough cash to get all the consoles and games I want this year...