Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Actually all the Million Selling Third Party games were released across the first three years, not just all at once. Games all the way up to 2008 sold a million as well. You haven't seen one from this year sell a million yet probably because they haven't had time. Though Monster Hunter Tri will. But I was bringing up the point not as a competition of 'who can sell a million', but trying to show that This Parties CAN sell well, when they actually put forth the effort. Just most don't try (aka, put forth the advertising and put enough games on the shelf). And I'm not desputing Nintendo is losing 'core' gamers. And geez, I'm repeating myself way too much in this thread. As I said before, perhaps for those people who want better graphics (or even for those who want certain games), the next Nintendo console can do something for them. This whole generation is pretty messed up but as it stands, Nintendo came back from basically nothing can took the market back. Its the Third Parties who need to put forth the effort to make a profit on the Wii. This notion that its Nintendos fault and they're losing fans because of a lack of games is pretty sad I think. They have more games on the Wii then the GC and next year they'll have a line up to rival (or surpass) the N64. Its the Third Parties who dropped the ball yet again on a Nintendo console and yet again Nintendo is getting blamed for it. |
Not really true. I've already made a comparison between GC and Wii and GC is still ahead in the same timeframe.
Besides, why should 3rd parties go back to Nintendo? Nintendo should go back to third parties, not the other way around. It's them who need 3rd party game on their systems to remain relevant. And it's already too late in the gen to manage that. 3rd party devs already have their engines ready and running on the HD consoles and they are seeing great sales there. Why would they want to focus on the Wii when there's already a huge market (bigger than the Wii) that is eagerly awaiting for their games?
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