| LordTheNightKnight said: "(what SHOULD happen with Wii fans if they want these 3rd party games so desperately)" You really got it wrong. It's not us having the games. It's the Wii having the games. So stop pretending you've proven anything by twisting out words. |
But you're a Wii owner, so you having the games and the Wii having the games is kind of mutually exclusive.
This whole thread is about a "what if?" situation. Realistically, you've noticed that the trend for third prties isn't in the favor of the Wii. But the question always arises of when they would start. But in that context, you've really got it wrong. I saved a post from a Kotaku poster from a while ago. I don't remember it specifically, because it's on a different computer, but it went something like this:
"If you're a true gamer, you don't buy a system, and just expect all the games to come it. You see what games are coming to what system, and then buy appropriately"
It shouldn't matter about tech specs, marketshare, etc. If you see that certain games are going to a certain platform, you buy that platform, not buy a different platform, then continually ask if/when the developers will put their games on what you bought.
Now, hypothetically, (and I've stated this above), I think it has absolutely nothing to do with tech specs or marketshare. It has to do with the higher ups at Nintendo. Coming off the SNES, the N64s 3rd party support wasn't that great, even though it was more powerful than the fledgling PS1, and Nintendo had the brand recognition that Sony didn't. Coming into the next gen, Nintendo found some middle ground in terms of power, but still, their 3rd party support paled once again, and even worse, to the even more fledgling company (in terms of video game brand recognition), Microsoft. Now, you have the Wii, which is the weakest of them all, but conversely has the most marketshare, and the outlook is once again the same.
Did you ever stop and think that Nintendo has something to do with it? Maybe 3rd party devs are "afraid of Nintendo's quality". It may seem like just another excuse, but that may be what they're really thinking. When something so obscure as Wii Fit sells over 20M copies, but Need for Speed doesn't even break 400k (sold over a million on PS3 and 360 both....and don't you DARE call that "niche"), nor Marvel Ultimate Alliance (over 2M on the 360....110k on the Wii) it really is telling of the Wii's demographic, whether you choose to believe that or not.
If Wii owners want to buy "Game Party" at a ridiculous rate, but not games in the same style as the above mentioned, do you really think developers will put those kinds of games on the Wii, high tech specs or not?
