Gnizmo said:
I asked why you kept choose these random and arbitrary points that are virtually meaningless with no context. I have seen you respond several times since then and that includes a post directed at me. If you cannot justify your argument then why on earth is it worth paying attention to? If it is so weak that it cannot be backed up, then it is worthless. |
A game's success is based on its sales. What is a good selling game to you? 100,000 or 500,00 or what? These are the top selling Wii games, in this list the number of third party core games is overshadowed by Casual and first party games, especially the further up you go in the list.
That is why I used 1.5 million or 1 million as benchmarks for best selling games on the system. You want me to count every game that sold more than 100,000 that will take a long time and I think my point is already made: 3rd party core games are not selling as well as casual or 1st party games which is why EA will release more Carnival Games and Sports Active and not going to bring Left 4 Dead or Burnout Paradise (unless it's some spinoff farmed to a minor developer) or Mirror's Edge or Dead Space (cause they tried that and it failed in their opinion).
Wii owners have been asking for more 3rd party support since the generation started, but the major publishers (Except maybe Sega and even they are financin big budget games on PS360 rather than just sticking to Wii) focus more on the HD consoles than the Wii, there is a reason behind that, companies aren't against making profits!
About development costs for 360/PS3/PC, after one version is fully made the cost of the other versions are much smaller.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/09/japanese-developer-microsoft-making-ps3-development-easier/
People go on and on about how Wii games cost half or a quarter to make compared to an HD game,but after one version is made at full cost then it is ported to PS3 and PC at fairly low costs so making a multifplatform game on HD consoles is logical for 3rd parties and combined profit across PS3,360 and PC (in the eyes of most major 3rd party publishers) makes up for not having released it on Wii and makes a profit or we would not be seeing the flood of high quality 3rd party games to 360/PS3.
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