Will Epic make a game for the Wii?

[LordTheNightKnight]

Legend11 said:
Well Mark Rein does have a point, if you don't believe 3rd parties are just fighting for scraps take a look at the Gamecube, 9 of the top 10 best selling games on that system were from Nintendo (numbers 1-9 on the list no less and Nintendo also takes spots 11 and 12). Now compare that to the PS2 where 8 of the to 10 were third party and the Xbox where 6 of the top 10 were third party. Now looking at the Wii there's 2 third party in the top 8 but it is very obvious that they'll soon be pushed off the list by Nintendo's own games (SMG, SSBB, Mario Kart).

 You got that way off. Third parties didn't put their hit games on the GC, save for Capcom and Factor 5. That's why they didn't sell. You think if GTA III had been on the GC, it wouldn't have been a hit?* It may not have sold as many copies in the first few months, since the GC would have just launched, but it would have certainly been a multi-million seller.

 The GC's problem wasn't Nintendo selling better games. It was the system itself offering almost nothing compelling over the PS2 or Xbox.

 Also, Nintendo has stated that they are not going to push Wii development as much after the first year, so that 3rd-parties can catch up. They did that with the DS, and most of the upcoming DS games are third party, even though most of the top sellers are by Nintendo. They evidently realize they can get more than scraps. Rein is just giving excuses for not trying.

 

 *And nobody try that crap about it not working on the GC. The game is only 500-700MB, less than half a GC disc. Even Vice City is 1.2-1.5GB, just enough to fit on a GC disc (even if it had to compress the audio more).