Developers share thoughts about the Wii

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Incondite said:
I think by holding standards the third party companies who make games (and already hold themselves to these standards) won't have any issue and will be more inclined to produce games for the wii with a lower competition.

Its really hard to sell a 3rd party game at $50 when there is 20 shovel-ware games to your 1 at $20.

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When Nintendo did this in the past, 3rd parties had a huge issue with it.  This caused them to move toward releasing more games on competitor consoles.

This same thing has happened to all generation winners.  That is not really an issue.  The real problem, as LordTheNightKnight continues to say, is the absence of the top tier software, made by top tier developers, with top tier budgets (which would still be lower than HD budgets since art assets don't need to be as detailed), with top tier marketing campaigns.