Modern Warfare 2 trumps entire first party lineups

[justinian]

sharky974 said:

Arius Dion said:
Hence why the competition MUST parrot and fabricate this notion that Wii is inhospitable to third parties because if TP's ever left Sony/M$ for greener pastures those platforms would perish.

There's no worry about third parties leaving the HD consoles, if anything they are moving more toward HD consoles and further away from the Wii by recent comments of Sega, Ubisoft, Activision etc.

3rd party developers need the HD consoles as much as the HD consoles need them.

Nintendo has done FAR better financially than any other developer or HD console manufacturer by looking after their own house.

MW2 may trump the HD 1st party lineup but not the wii's big hitters.

It's great having the support that the HD consoles now have but if you really want to make major money in this industry you must totally be in charge of your biggest franchises and no one knows this better than Nintendo - especially after the Gamecube.

COD:MWs sell a whole lot but the major slice of that cash pie is not going to sony or ms, it's going to IW and activision - is it activision? Cant remember. The same with MS's biggest games.

I think it is more to do with the fact that 3rd party devs can get far better returns on HD games, mainly franchises.

Nintendo's biggest games are their own..... most of MS's and Sony's someone else's.