RolStoppable said:
Carl, are you serious? The reason why third parties made Wii Sports and Wii Fit clones is because they saw easy money. Cheap to produce games with a high profit margin. Of course the market eventually realized that the quality of those games is subpar which is why sales for these games got worse and worse over time and third parties are complaining that the casual bubble has burst. But more importantly, what's up with this qualifier you had to put in your post? "Nintendo has to create new "core" franchises, if you want new big games on Wii." Usually when someone uses such a qualifier it's because his argument doesn't hold much water. This qualifier eliminates games like Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Brawl. What you are saying is that there's no reason for third parties to create games like that, because those franchises aren't new. There's no market for such games on the Wii, despite all of those games selling more than five million copies. In the same way, you could argue that there's no market for a game like Resident Evil 4, because it's not a new "core" franchise. I refuse to believe that you are that stupid. The Wii has the biggest userbase. The Wii sells the most third party software. The Wii has the lowest development costs of the three current generation consoles. The number of genres that have already succeeded on the Wii is bigger than on any other current generation console. But of course this isn't enough and Nintendo has to do much more. Logically, there's only one thing that Nintendo can do and that is to moneyhat each and every game. I find this stance of third parties quite arrogant, to be honest. |
There is a lot there, so have some colour.
Red - They sold well, and gave 3rd parties an idea of what sells on Wii. Thus they followed suit. I think if Nintendo did the same with for example, a 3rd person shooter. And it sold what... 5mil +, you would see a lot more TPS on Wii. Same for FPS games, or whatever.
Orange - It mainly goes back to my point on advertising. While Zelda, SMG and Smash Bros are big core franchises, we have had 3 of them this gen, and one of them was in 2006. You could also say Metroid, but we have had... One new Metroid game released back in 07, and a re-release. Since Brawl we have had nothing but "casual" stuff from Nintendo. This means Ninty have been marketting it for that specific audience for 2 years. Animal Crossing, Wii Music, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus, NSMB Wii are not games that cater to the "core" audience. You could possibly argue Mario, but with the way it was advertised it's not exactly going to draw in the core crowd.
2010 is looking different with SMG2, Zelda and Metroid all hitting in the same year. Ninty are also putting themselves behind Monster Hunter. Maybe they can influence some more core games on Wii, but i'm not expecting much.
Blue - Instead of making more new franchises themselves, why don't they? They can easily afford it. Why don't they pay Square to make a new Final Fantasy on Wii? Or Activision to give Wii it's own Call of Duty? Capcom for Res Evil 5 + 6? Sony/MS are willing to do it, why aren't Nintendo, who are in a much better position?
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