The Wii wil never get the kind of third party support that the PS2 had.

[Viper1]

Dno said:

Viper1 said:
Actually, Dno, there are more games releasing to retail on the Wii than the PS3 and X360 combined.

It's both a blessing and a curse.

o this is true and i no but i dont expect huge number from any 3rd party game this year on wii but ps360 has CODMW2, Assaissans cred, splinter Cell, etc etc all to do HUGE numbers. (i could be forgetting a lot but im not gonna look it up lol)

This is where a lot of people fail to look at the whole picture.   Being a sales site that looks very closely at individual game sales we tend to believe 3rd party games on Wii don't sell very well and this holds some truth...the issue is that publishers tend to look at the portfolio as a whole where the Wii tends to actually have more sales overall (and at times more revenue too as was the case seen in that Activision thread).

 

We forget that publishers don't expect every game to sell X number of million units and that they actually intent to only sell at times a few hundred thousand and that's it.  For example: Publisher A might release 1 big title on the HD consoles with expected sales of 2 million total while releasing 6 games on Wii expecting sales of 400k a piece which is a total of 2.4 million.

 

The above scenario doesn't look particularly appealing for Wii from a blockbuster games centric viewpoint (which is the viewpoint most consumers have) but it's very apealing to the publishers and investors.

 

True that Wii owners would love more actual blockbuster this thrown in the mix but given the development time it takes to plan, secure funding and develop those kinds of games, it's little wonder we haven't received many when you consider the list I provided on page 3.