Was Nintendo's 2008 flop of a lineup merely an issue with perception?

[patjuan32]

Ail said:

patjuan32 said:
No, I do not think that the Wii line up was a flop. Nintendo is carrying the flag for the Wii all by themselves. Therefore they had to release those games when they did. Now those teams are free to work on new IPs for the rest of this gen. The only problem that the Wii suffers from is the lack of 3rd party core games. This magnifies the lack of core games from Nintendo by a factor of 10. If third parties were doing for the Wii what they are doing for the Xbox 360 and the PS3 we would not care that Nintendo has not released a core game in a while. We'd be to busy discussing the core games developed by third parties. Hence the failure of third parties to capitalize on the success of the Wii.

 

Stop blaiming third parties all the time.

 

You will all admit that the core landscape is pretty bare on the Wii so any half decent core title released by a third party should do extremly well and still we have ahem sales from title like madworld.

 

Titles like Re1 or Motorstorm didn't sell 2 millions units on the PS3 because they were crazy good, they did because at the time there wasn't much competition on the console ( heck Haze sold 700k because the PS3 only had 2 shooters when it released) so users threw themselves at any half decent title that was released.

 

The lack of third parties core title on the Wii should help push like mad any core title that gets released, and it doesn't................

 First, I will not stop blaming third parties for not supporting the wii like they should. They could make a lot of profit but they are chosing not to do so.

 

Secondly, the lack of core games does not necessarily translate into sales for the few that are released on a console. Core gamers purchase a console because of the breath and depth of core titles offered. This is why rpg gamers chose the PS2 and why Shooter fans chose the Xbox last gen.

 

Thirdly, not all core titles will be succesful. Unreal Tournament 3 bombed on the Xbox 360 as well as the PS3. Outside of Lost Odessy no JRPG is performing well on the Xbox 360. Every system will have core games that fail. That's a part of life. Let's not focus on the failures of one console and blow it out of proportion like we've never seen it happen before.