Nintendo wants 70 percent third-party support for Wii

[txrattlesnake]

Arius Dion said:

txrattlesnake said:

Well, tough for them because they won't be getting it and if they do it will be do to multiplat (and most likely the weakest ports of the multiplat games like they already get). The only way they could get a little more would be by opening their coffers and giving some of the Wii profits to Western third party developers, but going back to the Nintendo Seal of Quality days that's not the way Nintendo operates (what I'm saying is they generally have demanded obeissance from the third parties, but the western third parties that are making up the largest part of development today want obeissance from the console makers instead).

And most of these Western third parties will be more interested in shifting their efforts to working towards the first next gen console to be announced (especially if its from Microsoft) rather than making Wii games.

Or so you hope that will be the case. It happened with the DS why not the Wii?

      Well, I was mainly talking about Western third party development which makes up the largest percentage of the "talked about" games of today like the fifteen games that were presented on Spike's pre-E3 show tonight.  I believe they presented first looks at fifteen games and only one of them was a Wii game (and even its trailer concluded by saying it is also on 360, PS3, and Games for Windows).  Also, they didn't even mention one handheld game during the entire program.  And if you listened to the rhetoric during the show every single time they mentioned the three console developers you could tell their was a heavy bias because they always said "Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo."  They made it clear with their speach that they like Microsoft first, then Sony, and last Nintendo.

      If Nintendo is interested in getting these developers to give them the same type of support that the PS2 and 360 receive, then they are just dreaming.