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jarrod on 30 November 2009
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Procrastinato said:
Khuutra said:
Procrastinato said:
Khuutra said:
Procrastinato, you are reaching on that point and I think it would be better if you let that go, since animations would be one of the only art resources that's being re-used - you can read the rest of the article to help illustrate that.

Now, I do have a solution to this, but you're not going to like it, and it's not going to happen, and it's not really possible - but it is more tenable than just raising prices by ten dollars.

What's the solution, and why wouldn't I like it?

Because it requires acknowledging the idea that third parties may be responsible for the current situation - not that they're at fault, so to speak, but that the demographic split is of their own doing.

Look, we agree that the demographic split is the primary reason that games like Call of Duty don't sell as well on the Wii, right? The typical Call of Duty buyer owns an HD connsole, yes?

 

Yeah, the demographic scatter is the primary reason Wii games are so unprofitable for 3rd parties -- they find it hard to target their traditional demographic there, and they are not used to the blue ocean demographic (like Ninty is), so they find it difficult to create games for the blue ocean.

I'm not really addressing that, however.  I'm addressing Reggies recent comments about how he wants to see games like AC2, etc. on the Wii.  I'm suggesting that, that just isn't going to happen, because the Wii is all about the blue ocean, and not about the traditional demographic at all.  If traditional demographic games come to the Wii, they need to cost more... or something.  The buyers just aren't there.

But (speaking of "conjecture") there's nothing to prove "the buyer's aren't there" until we actually have new 3rd party games on level with AC2, MW2, etc, on Wii and they tank.  Again, the only really comparable scale effort (MH3) did exceptionally, and it's arguably about as "hardcore" as videogames get.

I would say the larger issue for 3rd parties has been fear of demographic scatter leading their decision making... although at this point, their actions have likely made those fears reality (to some degree).  Again, 3rd parties made their own bed with Wii.