| 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). |
I have to agree with LordTheNightKnight here, maybe the Nintendo 3rd party song and dance isn't the most elusive but honestly by in large 3rd party devs never really gave the cube a chance. Luckily over the past few weeks we have heard a lot of good things from 3rd party devs towards the Wii and I don't think we are going to see a repeat of the cube support.
Actually, I can't think of any games released on a Nintendo system that were considered AAA or even just AA that didn't sell well. The fact is that if you make a good game its going to sell because people enjoy good games. If any company is afraid that they cannot deliver a good title and aren't willing to try then I have to question if we want them on the system.
Just to be clear, what I am saying is that if Epic would be going in to a Wii project with a timid attitude the result would probably not be pretty. So in that regards, until they are ready to give the console full support and put the kind of effort behind it that they do all their big games, I don't want them to make a game for the Wii.
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