I figured out why 3rd parties hesitate to put their best teams on Wii games

[Arius Dion]

Mr Khan said:

Azelover said:

Okay, here's what I think.

Nintendo should just expand and improve their output. Third parties don't "get" it, they cannot create nor sustain success for Nintendo consoles. It is because of their own games that Nintendo is where it's at now with the Wii and DS, and it will continue to be about their own games.

Their big mistake is the exact opposite of what people think is the problem. They are leaving too much room for third parties to thrive on their systems, they need to take hold of that and expand their output.

This focus on third parties in the industry is becoming completely irrational. Third parties have made their choice generally speaking, some of the top developer circles in Japan would like gaming to sink before supporting a Nintendo dominated future. This can be seen expressed literally. Nintendo needs to expand and make more software. They need to speed up their innovations and excite the market with new things more quickly.

I do agree that there is currently too much emphasis on 3rd parties, but thats merely the result of the fall of most of the software-oriented manufacturers, like Sega, Hudson, or SNK, who, like Nintendo, dominated the software lineups on their own consoles, whereas you can certainly say that Halo is huge, as is Gran Turismo, and both Microsoft and Sony have cultivated some great games over the years (though Sony seems determined to abandon their mascot titles every time they get huge: Sly Cooper, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Jak & Daxter), but the companies themselves are not about making games. 3rd Parties are what gave the PlayStation it's true strength, and since then it seems 3rd parties have been set up on a pedestal, that their support is key to a successful console, an idea that the Wii has thoroughly trashed, and slowly seeing 3rd party sales despite their efforts to ignore the platform.

 

 

This is a very good point. Third parties are IMPERATIVE for M$ and the PS3. Sony is learning now (and have even stated as such that first party software is top priority now).