| Procrastinato said: Reggie: "The conversation goes like this: 'We have a 22-million unit installed base. We have a very diverse audience… We have active gamers that hunger for this type of content. And why isn't it available?'"
3rd party publishers don't want to pay the excessive expense of creating exclusives for a system which is wholly unlike its competition, and worse, make games for a hard-to-target demographic. How many shooter fans does the Wii have? How many assassin/platformer fans? The numbers seem to suggest that, while the Wii, in general, has plenty of fans, they are, in fact, (to quote Reggie) "a very diverse audience". In other words, they don't all like the same games, effectively limiting the number of buyers. |
So having a narrow fanbase is what gets those games. You've just described the red ocean perfectly.
But even a diverse base is still going to have a lot of buyers, so ignoring those is still stupid.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs
