Malstrom: Nintendo’s Shield & Defense = “Sustained” Disruption?

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Avinash_Tyagi said:

^No actually it had very few good third party titles, the only one I can think of is MH3, the others were at best niche titles with little appeal.

Actually the reason for the need for strong first party titles is the lack of quality of third parties on the Wii, as a result yeah Wii success is dependent heavily on Nintendo software.

If the third parties were to release better games on the Wii, then it wouldn't matter that Nintendo first party was weak this year, as it is that's not the case, Nintendo software is what drives Wii sales.

Wii Third party is extremely weak compared to that on the PS3 and 360.

But interestingly enough the strength of the PS360 third party has not helped that market, and as we are seeing companies like EA and the like are losing money. The reason is the evidence for why that market is dying.

Costs of games on the HD twins has greatly outpaced the size of that market, revenue is rising, but so are costs even faster, and as a result profits are dropping, and companies are dying and downsizing.  Look at EA, such a huge company with such sales, and yet its taking losses and laying people off, as are other HD market companies, its a grim forecast for them, on the other hand, say what you will about Nintendo's declining revenue, its profits were extremely healthy.

There was a lot more than MH3 released this year...

 

EA Sports Active, Conduit, Madworld, Punch Out, Dead Space Extraction,  Mario and Sonic at the Winter Games, Metroid Prime Trilogy, GH5, Rock Band Beatles,...

 

I don't get the 'if third party were to release better games excuses' seeing how Regie keeps touting how the Wii is the platform that sells the most third party software, quality hardly seems to hamper sales. Or are you suddenly doubting the words of your chief evangelist ?

 

Face it, the issue isn't quality ( maybe it is for the hardcore Wii owners on this site) but the Wii customers at large that bought Carnival Games, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, Rabbids go home and more of the same have never seemed to listen much to review to direct their purchase...

The real issue is those same customers have been feeling the recession and holding more on gaming purchases than traditionnal gamers..

PS : EA isn't a very good example seeing how 2009 is probably the year they invested the most in the Wii and saw overall the biggest loss...