id Boss: 3rd-Party Wii Development "Not Really Justified"

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WereKitten said:

mike_intellivision said:
Now, maybe it's just that we don't know how to exploit it, and Nintendo does because they made the Wii, and they're really that good. And I'm not trying to take away from those guys at Nintendo. Their games are awesome--I'm a fan, too. But as a company that doesn't make Nintendo-type games, the Wii is less of a compelling platform for us to really sink a lot of resources into.

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6207773.html

This is a quote from the original interview -- obviously not picked up by Kotaku because it does not go along with the thesis it point to make.

Basically, a lot of people don't know what to do because the Wii shattered a lot of industry assumptions. It has caused a paradigm shift because graphical improvement is no longer the cornerstone to console success.

In the short run, some companies are just going to do what they have always done. This may not serve them well in the long run however.

Mike from Morgantown

I dissent. Graphical improvement did not grant success to GC and Xbox over the PS2. The only shift the Wii made was in market focus: they went for the untapped market of the audience that found games not accessible enough and overly complex.

This changed nothing for the traditional gamers, including the Nintendo core. And it's not a paradigm shift.

 

I agree completely. This deserved to be quoted. Nintendo didn't ABANDON anyone, they just wanted more people playing games. Their Fall Summit was CLASSIC Nintendo. Games of a WIDE variety. It's WHAT they do. I think if more developers realize that Nintendo wasn't trying to reinvent the lightbulb, but have more use one.

...If you have problems developing for the motion controls USE the Classic, or GC controller, if a gamer wants to play your game they will get what they need to play it. =/