| Chrizum said: Yeah, Bethesda and Sony can afford it, but Nintendo, the publishers with the largest cash flow, cannot. |
Nintendo can afford it, but Bungie isn't in the business of making games for the Wii. Nor the PS3 really, however it's a lot more likely due to the closer similarities between the 360 and PS3 than the 360 and Wii.
It amazes me at how many people get so upset about Nintendo being snubbed. Nintendo is and always has been a company that values (and makes it glaringly obvious) their first-party works over anything else (as they should). Not to mention, they went off of the conventional path with the Wii. While the architecture for the PS3 might be complicated, developing on the PS3 and 360 is the same as developing on any game console in the past. The 360 and PS3 are nothing more than upgraded versions of past gaming consoles. The Wii, however, it's a new branch in the gaming console tree. Developers can't lead on the console ever unless it's an exclusive, and even porting games from the 'traditional consoles' (360, PS3) is quite the task with regards to the differences in the Wii. Look at how many games are made to have 'special versions' for the Wii, with (nearly) identical versions on the PS3 and 360. Look at Madden, Dead Space, Need For Speed, etc.
That said, I don't see Nintendo pumping money into 3rd party games. That statement may be refuteable, but please tell me if I am wrong. They aren't going to put money into 3rd party games when they probably spend a lot less money developing first party games and stand to make a ton more money on them. Not just a little more money, a LOT more money.
What is keeping Nintendo alive? First party games. That statement sounds funny being that Nintendo isn't in any kind of danger right now, but that's it. They have a tried and true formula, they aren't going to go give bungie 50 million dollars when it's highly likely they'll never make the money back.
