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Dno on 14 July 2009
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Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Dno said:
HappySqurriel said:
Dno said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
This has been gone over time and time again. PS2 got all the support because Third parties were following the trends of the PSX success and it paid off. It came out first and it continued to be the most successful and so they threw everything behind it and by the end, it had 90% of third party support.

In this gen, the XBOX360 came out first and got a lot of third party attention, but others were hesitant to throw out all their support, waiting to see if the PS3 would follow the PS2s success. Mostly everyone ignored the Wii. In the end, the Wii and Nintendo surprised everyone and overtook them all by force. Many are just now turning around to join up, while others are pouting and refusing to make games for them due to grudges, disbelief or simply because they think they can't make money on the system/the system is outdated/the system is 'kiddy'.

In the end, the only two things that make the PS2 and Wii similar are that they are the low end systems of their gen. But Nintendo got the VERY short end of the stick and is still fighting a very nasty label put on them by both Sony and XBOX from the last 10 years. If anything, third parties are going to continue to ignore them for the most part until the next gen, until their wallets start barking at them.


like who? devs that put hardwork and make great games made money off the HD twins easy. This is a bad statement and its wrong and im kinda sick of hearing it. No one is going down because they are not making games for the wii... for every 3rd party success on wii theres about 50 more on the HD systems.

 

Next gen my be a different story but not this gen.

The record revenues and record losses of third party publishers that are directly related to the high sales of HD games not being enough to compensate for their high development cost demonstrate that you're wrong ...
Yes companies are losing more money then last gen because its harder to make games for newer systems it happens every gen but what he said is 3rd parties NEED to run to the Wii to make money. and thats not true... RE5, Halo3, GTA4, SF4, MGS4 COD4 (which is also on wii and got killed but HD sales) and a whole lot that i cant remeber all sold a LOT on HD consoles and they all got LOTS of money.  and the companies that did put games on the wii sold horrible (mad world, conduit etc). Companies DONT NEED the wii as much as people think because companies are making a killing off the slower selling HD twins.

That's the whole problem with trying to make games on the 360/PS3.  They're all trying to make the next Halo/Gears of War/GTA.  But not every game can be in the '1%' club.  And if so many companies are spending multiple millions making games, but so few are getting that money back, they are going to post losses.

Many of those same companies are making cheap 'casual' titles on the Wii that cost almost nothing to make but sell anywhere from 100,000-500,000 and make MORE money then their titles on 360/PS3.  To make up the difference.  Then whine that the Wii is a 'casual system'.

hahah thats very true lol