Is Wii Fit Fair Game???

[Legend11]

RolStoppable said:

Legend11 said:

RolStoppable said:

So it doesn't matter if some Wiis are purchased only for Wii Fit. 3rd parties will sell more games on the Wii than on the PS3 and the 360, plus they will make more profit on Wii games because of lower development costs.

When? And are you saying that those who buy Wii Fit (Nintendo first party) will be the ones that'll drive sales of third party games? I guess we won't know for sure until months from now. I'm just trying to say it's hard to compare these people to those who buy a 360 or PS3 or even a Wii for hardcore titles because it's not a given that they're going to be the kind of consumers that'll buy many titles.

My post would make more sense if you had included all paragraphs.

The point is, plenty of people owned a PS2 for only a couple of games, but that didn't stop 3rd parties to give the console enormous support. The same is probably true for the DS, also plenty of people who may own only a couple of games.

When there is a fast growing installed base, 3rd parties notice this and start to heavily support this platform. In turn, more gamers will buy the system. 3rd parties make even more games and more people buy the system. Well, you know how this works.

PS2, DS, Wii, they aren't that different. Lots of people who only own a couple or a handful of games, but also a lot of people who own 20+ games (not true for Wii yet, because the system is only out for a year). Certainly, the majority of people own only a few games, otherwise the attach rates would be insanely high. But there are enough gamers who buy 5-10 games a year to make games for 3rd parties profitable. 

Installed base isn't the whole story when it comes to third party support. 

There's the fact that Nintendo is known to take the lion's share of sales on their consoles.  It would be interesting if ioi had a feature in which game sales are broken down for each system by first/second party and third party games so we can see exactly what percentage of games for each system are third party games.  Of course there would be weeks when big games like Halo 3 or Super Mario Galaxy would throw the numbers out but other weeks would make up for it.

Also some games simply sell better on certain systems regardless of installed base size.  Look at Madden 08,  even taking the current installed bases into consideration it sold a lot better on one system than the other.  So it's likely third parties will look at whatever system is the best fit for their game rather than the installed base size.

And also like I mentioned in previous posts (some not in this thread) things like Wii Fit make the Wii's userbase more diverse than the 360's so it becomes much harder to make a game that appeals to the majority of the userbase.  I know Madden was already mentioned but I'd still argue that the Wii's userbase is still much more diverse regardless. 

Anyways I guess we'll see what kind of support the Wii will get in the future, I'm sure it's going to get some good third party games but I have my doubts that it'll dominate third party support of the best games like the PS2 did.