| ckmlb said: The whole argument was about the performance of 3rd party core games that's what I said in the beginning and people argued that I wasn't looking at the whole picture, I never said 1st party or casual games aren't selling. The back and forth was about 3rd party core games which this game is an example of hence why I mentioned the performance of 3rd party core games which, by the way, the game developer himself was pointing out: the market for 3rd party games on Wii... I'm sure he meant games such as Final Fantasy and not games targeted at the casual audience then people are arguing with me that third party is doing great even though there are few 3rd party core games that have sold a million copies on a system with a 55 million user base. Square Enix: Of course we would love to succeed, but seeing the current Wii market, it will be no easy feat. That's straight from the developers' mouth and I'm just pointing out why a big developer like SE would call an FF game selling not an easy feat. |
Seriously, Square Enix?
Let's just recall all the games SE has so far released for the Wii. Not even 1 high budget release. All spin-offs, low budget, casual titles. Instead, they solely focus on HD development (and mainly on the 360 OMG), barely having profits even with the DS cashcow and the endless software they release on it.
And if the Wii market is so damn casual, how come SMG, Zelda and SSBB have sold millions upon millions? Do you actually think they'd get into games like that? There are millions of both hardcores and core gamers owning a Wii system waiting for a AAA game to purchase, be it a Nintendo or a third party one.
And guess what? Third parties have so far released only 1 such game, of fine quality and what the market wants, and it sold over a million and became the best selling third party console game this gen. Not even MGS4 did that. The market is there. It's just that 3rd parties don't have the balls to explore it.
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