| Impulsivity said:
A lot of people buy the shovelware because a big part of the Wii owners are the exact people Nintendo was catering to last E3. It's casual gamers who bougth the console on a whim and buy things like "The Biggest Loser: The Game" on name recognition since they wouldn't know a good game if it smacked them in the face. Yes there are probably 10-20 million Wii owners who really do like games, but there are a ton who have it and just buy crap because they have never bought a game system before. This also seems to be the market that Nintendo wants more then any other (which is why they devoted so much time at E3 to talking about how you can get recipes in the kitchen on the DS and how housewives are buying it because they saw it on daytime TV). How were all the great core titles on the Wii at the end of the year last year when 360 and PS3 owners had so many games that were awesome they couldn't afford them all? Oh thats right, with the Wii instead of making GTA Rockstar is cashing in on the Carinval Games series and instead of making high quality games Capcom is turning them old games into on rails shooters and giving them new names. If the Wii wants more development of quality Wii games they need to make the Wii a more hospitable system for the kinds of consumers who buy high quality games, as it stands the good Wii games seem to get left in the dustbin unless they say "made by Nintendo" on them. How is the game people above keep bragging about, Madworld, doing on the Wii? less then 100k sales? How is "My Fitness Coach" doing? Closing in on a million? Wonder why people only make crap games for Wii with those kinds of numbers... |
Oh yes and HD development is all profits and rainbows right? Its not companys have gone belly up right?
Or third partys pushing the majority of there development towards HD games before the actual systems came out because they were so reassured that the HD systems were going to win. (spoilers, they didn't.)
Nintendo made an affordable system for third partys, with a less financial risk of developing games for the system.
Third partys didn't bring there best, because we all know they didn't, leaving Nintendo to pretty much clean house.
So now you'v got third partys trying to release games that ride on Nintendo's success. There not trying, they sit back like the internet community and just go ""Wii is for casuals release crap on it""or litterally ""Copy Nintendo.""except they ignore Nintendo's other successes like smash bros or mario kart, but then they scap goat it and go ""But but but, we can't compete with Nintendo :( ""
So who's to blame? Nintendo? Nope because they don't flood the market like third partys. Or hand there projects to lesser development teams, or simply out right refuse to work on the system.
Once again this wasn't a issue on the PS2, because everyone was happy the PS2 won. But when Nintendo has shovelware, its a grave mortal sin also apparently only exist.
