Nintendo is to blame for bad third party games on the Wii

[appolose]

Pristine20 said:

appolose said:

 

 

 Well, Mario Kart had the Wii wheel and motorcycles (and online, though not all together innovative (although it is for the series).  Brawl, while it had a much improved single player (and online (which doesn't work too well, albeit)), probably was less innovative, but the series is much loved, has only had two titles of it before in the past 9 years, and has had a much hjigher install base to work with, so the sales are expected (although, I imagine if another SSB game released, at least, soon, it probably would not see such great sales unless it change something big).   Comparing these games to the Wii-whatever series, however, shows how far innovation can go.  Also, yes, perhaps an innovative game flopped, but that's just one case you provide.

Judging by the games Happysquirrel mentioned, I don't think minor tweaks were his idea of innovation. Online is pretty much expected with games of those genres. Street fighter Iv added online, a revenge bar and a focus attack to the same old formula...is it innovative too?

 

The changes to Mario Kart are certainly not minor tweaks; motion control and an entirely new methodology of racing (the bikes) have been added.  Like I said, Brawl, I think, has been less innovative, and has substanitally less sales than MK or Wii Fit (which, as the Wii series has shown, has ridiculously high sales while being extremely innovative) and others (also, there certainly are going to be at least a few high selling games that do not innovate much).