With that Japanese newspaper article saying what we all suspected for a while that third parties are tentative to develop for the Wii as the bubble may burst and at the same time little titbits coming about games companies coming from other avenues ie Capybara, 100 proposals for WiiWare, the Wii's low development costs and imagination being more important than budget / graphics to carve a big hit - does anyone think by the end of the Wii's cycle there may just be a few more household developers / publishers companies names?
I just feel that the Wiiware is a great chance to experiment and get to grips with wiimote controls and if some of these new companies get 2/3 releases under their belts and get known there may be a new Capcom or Square Enix as Sony / Microsoft get more and more expensive all Nintendo have to keep doing is making the opportunties cheaper and easily accessible (to me even now with the Wii's current install base there's probably enough dev companies thinking that's a pretty tempting target audience already).
After all how many of the current companies we know of these days had we heard of before the PS2's cycle?
Or am I just rambling and talking nonsense?
http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/826/826558p1.html - Devs nervous about Wii
http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/826/826559p1.html - Capybara eyes up Wii
Those people that think they're perfect give a bad reputation to us who are...
"With the DS, it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen, but I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that." - Phil Harrison, Sony
