Diomedes1976 on 12 February 2007
robjoh said:
hanafuda said:
stof said:
You've got to remember that this is pretty close to launch. A lot of these games - on both platforms - should be expected to see long term steady sales as more people buy the consoles.
I'll be keeping my eyes open for some impressive figures from the following then:
Necro Nesia
Swing Golf Panya
Monkey Ball
Red Steel
Excite Truck
Korinpa
Elebits
That Gundam game that tanked
Wing Island
I could go on, but you get the idea.
I see third parties abandoning the Wii just like the Cube because they can't compete with Nintendo themselves.
Well first of all, Excite Truck is made by Nintendo. Or atleast it is Nintendo that has been published it.
Second: Red Steel might not sell in Japan, BUT ubisoft has stated that they are pleased with the sells WW. With roughly 250k in USA alone and Rayman is also going strong. Red Steel 2 is already in production so Ubisoft must have felt that they have made som money at least.
The rest I can confess has not been seen in any larger part, BUT to state that the third parties will aband Wii because of this when their is a lot of announcment comming now makes me wounder what you are smoking.
SE has proved on the DS that it is possible to compet with Nintendo, FF and DQM.
The elebits team can't be to disapointed because they are making a new game slated for 2007. Dews Advantures (sp?) that at least I will pick up if I can get my hands on a Wii.
Of course they might abandoning Wii in the long run, but at least Ubisoft is making some money from Wii.
EDIT: And Madden NFL has sold 200k on Wii until december in USA (that is roughly 20% attacment). So yes I do think that we will see some continued support from third parties.
SE may be the only third party company that is seeing some significant revenue fron the DS .Always if we follow the path of some posters that to see profit you need multimillion sellers .FFIII and DQJoker are around 1 million y Japan and considerably worse in the US the first one .Not good numbers for a DQ or FF game if you ask me ,but good numbers nonetheless .THQ is making a lot of money with its kiddies games .But others as Ubi and Capcom in their annual data they have shown the PSP amounts for more in their annual revenue that the DS .Even in Japan ,PSP worst territory ,Capcom has a million seller as Monster Hunter and nothing comparable for the DS .
The issue the other poster adresses is that this is the exact trend of the other Nintendo consoles .....Nintendo games sells millions ,the third party games sell a lot less excepting a handful ,kiddies games are strong and finally that determines the support of the third parties ;some multiplatforms ,some kiddie games ,a handful of exclusives negotiated in the first days of the console and the NIntendo games .Enough ? Maybe ,but for the Cube it hastn been .
