http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=90552
Some choice quotes:
“(on third parties making core games for Wii) And they've been huge financial flops... It's just not where the market is. Look at EA. Do you see the same Madden game on Wii? Of course not – it's a dumbed down game.”
Rein continued by noting that some of these Wii games are “good cautionary tales” in terms of what the publishers attempted to do and how the market received the titles. “There are some good publishers out there that make some great triple-A games that make hundreds of millions of dollars, and I'm not going to name them, but then at the end of the year when they look at earnings, they lose money! Or they make only tens of millions of profit on billions in revenue. It just shows you what happens when you think, 'Oh great, they're diversifying, they're stretching outside their comfort zone,' and now they're making less money,” he said.
Ignorance must be bliss, huh? So he not only assumes that the core wii games have been financial flops, he seems to extrapolate them to the reason why the big publishers aren't making as much profits (or incurring losses)
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
