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nitekrawler1285 on 04 January 2010
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LordTheNightKnight said:
nitekrawler1285 said:
Because most assume that Wii owners aren't interested and rightly so. The wii competes on new values that don't mesh well with the other consoles. Shoe horning it in doesn't really work

Nintendo made the Wii to compete with disinterest in videogames. Most Publishers and developers don't understand how to reach an audience that doesn't already play videogames.

Wii is also underpowered for multiplatform development.

You need to ask is why don't developers make appealing games for the Wii audience instead of why don't we get games that will be gimped and no one is interested in on the Wii.

The only problem with that line of thinking is the assumption the Wii doesn't have enough gamers that would buy those games. No More Heroes is not an expanded audience game. It's also Suda 51's bestselling game, and is getting a sequel. If there wasn't an audience for those games, it would not have sold that well.

And that's just a niche example. Call of Duty games get almost no marketing on the Wii, and are still selling great.

So there is an audience for those games. Developers just refuse to see that and throw games that are gimped by choice, not by tech (Dead Space Extraction).

While the sales of NMH might work for smaller studios those kinds of sales aren't going to cut it for larger dev houses that are looking for larger ROI.  

CoD has a lot of brand recognition. Beyond that most devs don't want the wii sell great over time chart. They want the MW2 on PS3/360 first week kinda chart.  

If that is considered an audience then most developers are going to close down because they wont have enough profit.

The probem is that most devs wants their title to light up the charts. Wii titles have never done this with very little exception(Nintendo titles EA active)  

Beyond that I believe that any appealing game made for the Wii would sell far more than the meh port of multiplatform games that ppl seem to want.  Hell other than RE:4 and COD how many niche games have we seen breach 1 million on Wii?