Developers share thoughts about the Wii

[trestres]

Well, whenever I say Nintendo should bring back quality control people tell me Nintendo won't do that because third parties will go away, but in the end they are damaging their image and will be seen as a shovelware platform next gen if things don't change. At least some kind of control about content and quality, there's no excuse for devs to be porting PS2 stuff or making games that look like early dreamcast/N64 titles. Developers can't compete now because there's no more room for it, the shelves are filled with turds and it's very improbable some casual gamer will pick up a quality game over a crap one, since the crap games outnumber the good ones by a big margin, and most people will just pick a game judging it by the cover.

There are no demos, no advertisement, no will from retailers to stock a reasonable amount of copies. It's a nightmare for those devs that try, while on the other hand, the abominable shovelware makers are rejoicing over the sales of their turds, since Nintendo does allow them to publish as many games as they want, which means rushed products which flood retail and cover the good games. This needs a solution ASAP. Nintendo needs to perform quality control in the USA and set a fix number of games a publisher can publish in a certain span of time, because it's really ridiculous.

But Nintendo is making money out of every turd that gets sold, so I doubt they willwant to ruin this gold mine. Reggie says he's disappointed with 3rd parties, but if it wasn't for all the shovelware, they wouldn't be posting such high profits. It's a neverending cycle, where the most dedicated and informed gamers, as well as the quality devs will end up losing. Nintendo, crappy publishers and uninformed customers will always win.