E-mail third party to complain

[Arius Dion]

Mummelmann said:

Arius Dion said:

Don't see how the lack 'quality' third party support is Nintendo's fault. TP's are their own entity that make their own decisions. DS gets quality third party support.

The DS and the Wii are hardly comparable though. The DS is a handheld with forefathers that completely dominated the market and it has been out for five good years showing a good ability to sell 3rd party games on a large scale and it has only one true competitor (barely, the PSP is really no match, paralympics contestant versus Usain Bolt) from an unproven handheld console manufacturer that has done... a lot worse. Also, developers don't have to choose either DS or three other platforms (as opposed to choosing between Wii or PS3/360/PC).

The Wii was a huge gamble made by a company that was soundly beaten for two gens running, a company that have also been known to have a strained relationship with third parties on their home consoles and to make it even more savoury it has a hardware setup that yields little to no room in terms of cross platform simultaneous development for most developers and has been out only three years selling a whole lot less 3rd party software than its handheld brother and is currently showing a huge yoy drop despite active measures to maintain momentum.

Not the same at all, actually.

Wii sells the most third party software though. And has shown the ability to sell third party software. Which is rather remarkable considering Wii hasn't received much quality TP support. DS also has the strong Nintendo first party support but TP's don't seem to be intimidated to compete with Nintendo on that front.

Also regardless of how many platforms a game comes out on its only getting bought once by each repsective userbase and I'm not even going to talk about dev costs at this point.

Wii could be just as hospitable to third parties if they decided to make it so.

If GTA or the RE's or any of the big games were on Wii they'd have no problem selling. Throw cursed mountain on an HD console and see what happens. Or HotD or DS:E. The recent article by Fahey about the DS will perhaps be applied to Wii by the time its 5yrs old as well.