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naznatips on 28 November 2007
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jjseth said:
naznatips said:
The Gamecube Kirby game sold more than a million copies. Whether you think it's quality or not is a moot point in a sales discussion. It still outsold all but 2 PS3 games. Mario Party 8 got pretty crappy reviews too, but it's sold almost 1 million units more than the best selling PS3 games. So, again, we can talk about quality all you want, but from a sales perspective, the Wii's lineup next year is even stronger.

I also noticed you completely ignored my point that the developers won't stop making games after they release their big titles. I guess that wasn't convenient to your way of thinking. If Nintendo runs out of new high end titles, all they do is make more. Nintendo has many more studios this generation than they did last generation, and more second parties than ever. Of course they'll have more games.

And how long was the Gamecube out when the Kirby game and Mario Party 8?  How long of a time period are we talking about as well?  If you are comparing sales over 2-3 years for a game cube game, then of course it should be higher then most PS3 games that have been out for at most 1 year.

 Comparing apples and oranges my friend.   

 Also, how have most 3rd parties sold on the Wii thus far?  That could hinder some titles from coming to the wii for that reason alone.   Also, there will be many games that 3rd parties will want to make, but the wii will be unable to give a great experience due to the lack of power in the wii or controller difficulties (as in being very awkward or watered down gameplay to make it work) in comparison to the PS3 and 360.

 When it comes to many of these video game companies they are filled with IT geeks like me.  They don't always want to do what others were doing 5 years ago as far as quality, they wan tto push the envelope and make the most impressive technical game ever.  One that blows away the others in terms of graphics, gameplay, entertainment, replayability.   Those that want to stick to the status quo, well, they will soon find themselves way behind the 8 ball and not able to catch up to the Naughty Dogs or insomniacs when it comes to gorgeous games that perform wonderfully and are lots of fun.  

The dev's won't stop producing games on the PS3, especially if sales continue as they have recently for the PS3.

 

Mario Party 8 is a Wii game, and it sold 2.79 million copies to date and will easily break 3 million.  Kirby's Air Ride was released in July of 2003.  The Gamecube had sold 8.8 million units worldwide at that point.  So yeah, more than the PS3, but that doesn't stop the game from being successful.

3rd party games have actually been very successful on the Wii so far.  There are 3 TP million sellers on a system with low development costs and many more games with over .5m units sold which is easily within profit range on the Wii with its dev costs.  

On the other hand, all estimates say TP games need to sell over 1 million on the PS3 to make money, and none have. Although Assassin's Creed and CoD4 will be the first 2 to do so.   The Wii's 3rd party software sales aren't particularly impressive, but they are more than reasonable and with the high userbase and low dev costs it's not surprising it's an appealing system for 3rd parties. 

Also, considering Naughty Dog and Insomniac just made games that were not very successful at all, I'm pretty sure third parties don't want to emulate them right now.  If devs were tech whores all games last gen would have been on the GC and Xbox and all games before that on the N64.  Devs are money whores.