| Legend11 said: You call Monster Hunter 3 and Fatal Frame 4 flourishing? Isn't one of them a pokemon clone and the other a second or third tier horror title that never really caught on last gen? Well maybe it's not a pokemon clone but it's not something I'd get excited over. I think the fact that there's a thread asking who doesn't play their Wii, and the response from it (especially the people who're playing VC titles rather than Wii titles) says a lot. And where exactly was the effort by Nintendo to get those games? |
That's the whole point - Nintendo doesn't have to buy exclusives anymore, and Sony and Microsoft are beating each other up over them. This is why Wii was the perfect strategy for Nintendo: the fact is that Nintendo can't compete with these two companies in a ridiculous bidding war for third party exclusives.
As for the importance of these two exclusives: Monster Hunter Portable was the main driving force for PSP sales up until FF Crisis Core came out. Pokemon clone or not, it's big news. As for Fatal Frame, the series averages around 80% on Gamerankings, not bad at all. They aren't the big, big games: those will come if Wii's dominance continues. Instead, developers are testing the waters with the second stringers. It's still better than the third stringers we're getting now, the fourth stringers we were getting eight months ago, and the no-stringers we were getting at launch.
People need to look at the big picture instead of limiting their vision to a three month time frame. In just over a year Nintendo has gone from having the worst third party support, hand-down, to having middle-of-the-road third party support, and it's still improving.
