Malstrom: The industry's hostility against Nintendo

[LordTheNightKnight]

jarrod said:

jneul said:

not all 3rd party games are trash some gems do get overlooked there are plenty of examples like madworld, zack and wiki, yet people choose wii-pay mini games over them, yeh sure they are fun for the first few times, but they get real old real quick

The problem with this is in inherently blaming the platform though, and for some reason the industry tends to do this only for Nintendo.  Chinatown Wars makes for a good example, when it "bombed" on DS it was because the platform can't sell mature games/non-Nintendo games/whatever, but then when it bombs worse on PSP it's suddenly "overhead GTA just doesn't sell as well" or "ports don't sell" or "PSN phantom markets" or whatever other retroactive excuses.

MadWorld's likely sold through near 250k NA/EU and Zack & Wiki shipped over 300k worldwide.  They most likely wouldn't have performed any better on any other platform, there's just a limited market for stuff like cell-shaded beat 'em ups or cutesy puzzle adventures, no matter where you go.

And yet the DS audience still bought far more copies.