| sc94597 said: The problem isn't that they are third party. The problem is that they are VERY niche. The games that go to the HD consoles are much more mainstream. Do you think the conduit, no more heroes, and Madworld would do much better on the 360, PS3, or both? What about Little King Story? How about you tell me some high selling 3rd party series that went to Wii, but didn't sell well? Yeah there may be a double standard, but that is on every platform. On 360 there are people who would do this for a bungie game, on PS3 for any sony first or second party developer, on PC any blizzard game. The only platform where there is even somewhat of an equal stance is PSP, and that is only because when you look at high selling games there you don't look at developers(since sony has been barely supporting it) you look at large series(i.e Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto.) So again, I ask what game is high budget enough to be pulling off the sales you speak of? What game would have done better on the PS3, 360, or both? |
So that's it then? Every unsuccessful third party title on the Wii is just very, very niche? You don't think that it could simply be that because the Wii has such a wide demographic breakdown that it simply doesn't have as many customers to support these titles as the other two consoles do? Nintendo, by general good word of mouth and legacy franchises gets to side step this problem and create a seperate "core fanbase" that is willing to spend on their titles while generally shying away from third party releases. I mean seriously, look at Endless Ocean. You think a violent, black & white beat em up is niche? Endless Ocean is a scuba diving simulator. If any other publisher put that on Wii, no amount of advertising would have elevated it anywhere even close to the vicinity of a million copies sold.
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