| 68soul said: It's been three years now, and we ALL have to face the truth: when Nintendo DO release many AAA games, 3rd parties do complain about the difficulty to compete with these... and when Nintendo DO NOT release many AAA games (like in the past 18 months), then there's NO ONE to take the opportunity, and we're left with nearly nothing to play except a handful of quality "niche" titles, and an handful of 1st party games... but nearly no " exclusive big budget" 3rd parties efforts...they're not comin', simple as that... |
You see, and that's where I think there's a discrepancy. While I agree that the majority of Third Parties are avoiding the Wii or putting their 'weak' games on the platform for a quick buck, I don't think the system is devoid of good games. Especially in the last year, we saw some great Third Party games. But it seems that they all just went under everyones radar because 1) They weren't tied to any major company/series, 2) They had little to no marketing and 3) They didn't sell a million copies (see examples #1 and #2).
Games like Muramasa, Little King's Story, A Boy and His Blob and more were genuinely good games and stood out from the 'weak' titles on the system, both in the last year and from that stagnant period in the first 2 years of the Wiis life when the Wii had virtually no good Third Party games. And there's more to come. Its just sad to say that no one is going to care to buy them because they have no marketing put behind them and anything on the Wii that isn't made by Nintendo has such a 'kiddy' image. Even something like Muramasa sadly.
| Exblackman said: I think Nintendo should scale back their japanese wii sales reliance and focus more on the west.. I'm not talking about making mature games but more advertisement and budgets for the western markets. I seriously believe that the home console market in Japan will decline to epic levels and relying too much on Japan will become a death trap for some companies/developers... |
I thought Nintendo has pretty much stated that's what they are doing. Showing how Japans market has shrunk even smaller than Europes in many ways and Americas is the biggest. And focusing on partnering with Third Parties to make more popular Japanese series more popular internationally like Professor Layton, Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest.
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