Third Party Devs have made up their minds about the Wii.

[Procrastinato]

JTurner82 said:
OK, here's what I think is gonna happen from some major third-party publishers:

CAPCOM: They said they were scaling back. They didn't say they were dropping Wii support. They've still got TvC, MH3. And, from the looks of it, both are going to be advertised.

KONAMI: Well, they DID give us some high quality "Rebirths" via WiiWare, and they DID give a solid SILENT HILL SHATTERED MEMORIES (which seems to be doing decent if unspectacular sales). I don't see these guys going away.

SQUARE-ENIX: Hard to say. Their development support has been quite erratic over the years. They did release CRYSTAL BEARERS this year, but that title split audiences. They're still onboard for DQX, though, so I don't see them going away.

SEGA: They may have said no more M-rated games, but they're not dropping Wii either. They're just "scaling back".

E-A: Iffy, because I don't know about them.

NAMCO: They've done Tales of Graces for Wii. What else will happen from them remains to be seen.


So while I DO see some scaling back in terms of Wii development from third-parties, I don't see it going away altogether; there's quite a bit of games coming this year from 3rd-parties (granted, they were released about over a year ago, but that's better than nothing.)

-Jon T.

Great post.

3rd parties are not cutting their Wii game development, they are consolidating it.  Spending the same, or nearly the same, amount of money total (more PER project), on far fewer projects.  That's a good thing, not bad.  Having "1/3rd to 1/4th" the dev cost put the typical Wii game below just about any serious PS2 game ever made, and it shows.