justinian on 04 March 2009
| Arius Dion said: Sony and M$ didn't do a better job "enticing" third parties. I don't know what you are talking about. Third parties ASSUMED one of those two consoles would be the market leader (most bet the PS3 would be #1, and guess what..it isn't). It really is as simple as that. Every third party wrote Nintendo and their Wii off this gen, had they known (who really coulda saw this coming?) the Wii was going to be the WW runaway marketleader do you really think third parties wouldn't have supported it with major franchises? EA said it best, they bet on a wrong horse. Why should Nintendo Pay any third party to put a major franchise on the system? The Installed base is tempting enough, the smaller dev costs is tempting enough, the new input device is tempting enough. Alot of people blame Nintendo for the shovelware on the Wii today (I'm not accusing u of doing this) But during the 80's and 90's when Nintendo was dominating, Nintendo was very picky with what games got produced on their systems, and were criticised for that. That is not the case today but still the critique goes to Nintendo for third parties not putting their top quality teams to develop for the Wii? I'm sorry I'm just not ready to go that route. Third parties are their own entity, they will make their own decisions some good some bad, and they will have to deal with the consequences. Dib8terman is correct in that you may be critising the wrong department here. |
Spot on. The anti-wii brigade will never tire of creating spin. They will read something published on the internet and switch it around to convince themselves that it really means what they want it to mean.
I am still waiting for the "nintendo bought 30million wiis themselves to increase the sales" story.
Who is making more money than nintendo this gen? They must be doing something right.
Sony has all the third party support but look where they are financially.
The wii doesn't have much third party support is a myth.
