SaviorX said:
Nintendo gave you the highest selling racing game ever. In return we get Need for Speed Nitro,Wheelspin, Sonic & Sega Allstar Racing, and M&Ms Kart Racing Mario Kart is a racing game that is both casual and core. It doesn't prove there is a market for games like Grid, a Gran Turismo, a Rally game etc. Instead, it shows there is a market for broad appeal racers which are what most of the games you mentioned are. Also, Formula 1 was released on Wii, don't forget that! Nintendo gives you the fastest selling platformer in near 20 years. In return you get a Klonoa remake and the Munchables. To be fair I can't think of that many 2D platformers on any console although they are having a bit of a resurgence due to NSMB and LBP. But LBP was also Sony 2nd party and was developed by an indie dev, so 3rd parties a lagging on all fronts in this genre. Nintendo gives you the highest selling-fighting game ever. In return we get TMNT Smash Up with 1/3 of the characters and less than half the features and Soul Calibur Legends, which is trash. Although it's a fighting game it doesn't exactly play like other fighting games, not to mention the fact that the art style and characters compared to the likes of Tekken, Soul Caliber, DoA and Street Fighter is very different. So is it that suprising 3rd parties haven't put there traditional fighters on Wii? If Nintendo had a truely traditional beat-em up then your point might be valid, but the reason Smash Bros is so great is because it's unique. Nintendo gives you a system selling Adventure game. In return we get Flip's Twisted World and nothing else. This point is entirely valid. I can't think of anything that comes close on Wii. Nintendo gives you a near 2 million selling FPA (complemented by the 2 million selling Call of Duty games and Red Steel). In return we get on-rail/lightgun shooters and Rogue Trooper..... I posted something about Metroid in my previous post. It's sold badly for a Nintendo game, although they've never been spectacular in sales. With the right ad campaign they could have had a much greater number of sales and really shown 3rd parties that these types of games can sell. I think Nintendo dropped the ball a bit. And when 3rd parties see CoD games (most popular FPS series this gen) lagging in sales behind the HD counterparts they probably think the effort to do a Wii port is not worth it. The market is there for these games, it's just not as big as the combined HD + PC market. And also, what's a publisher going to take note of: The 1-2 million sales of a FPS, or the ridiculous sales of Wii Fit and Mario & Sonic? What else can Nintendo do besides walk into your company and make the games themselves? |
I think the only thing Nintendo can do is to develop or publish a title or two from a genre that they traditionally wouldn't touch (traditional/core style), that brings something new to that genre and sells incredibly well (8+million). Until that happens 3rd party publishers are going to carry on assuming the market isn't there and continue copying Nintendo in the fitness and party game genres.
