( PCWorld ) Why The Wii Needs an HD Visual Upgrade

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Procrastinato said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Ail said:
At some point Nintendo and especially Regie are going to have to stop blaming others for the lack of serious third party games on their platform and assume their responsability........

This is a business, if there was major bucks to be made on the Wii they would have been all over it for a while.
And please stop saying it's all part of a conspiracy, a guy like Kotik has most likely never held a controller in his hands and barely knows the difference between HD and regular graphics. All he sees is how to maximize the company profits and especially his stock options grants....

There are huge bucks to be made on Wii, look at Nintendo's profits

Why are you comparing first-party profits to 3rd party?  They have radically, radically different business models.  That Nintendo makes a lot of money from their has relatively little bearing on the 3rd parties.

Apple makes a TON of money from the iPhone store.  Other companies, for the most part, don't, because there's too much competition (over 15000 titles).  The number of iPhone games that make a decent amount of revenue is a tiny fraction of the whole, and none of them compare to the awesome profits accrued by Apple via licensing fees.

Nintendo's business plan is akin to a pyramid scheme -- sheer quantity feeds Nintendo well, but divides the income so thinly amongst the 3rd parties, as to make it hardly worthwhile.

I don't understand how a pyramid scheme has any similarity to Nintendo's business plan. Nintendo charges licensing fees to third parties just like every console maker does. There's no division of income.

Please explain.