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KungKras on 18 February 2010
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Carl2291 said:

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?

Red - Third parties are incompetent and unable to think for themselves confirmed? It's not like MS or Sony have had to cover every genre on their consoles, so why should Nintendo? Third parties did their very best to create audiences for themselves on the other consoles, so do they suddenly become handicapped in everything they do on the Wii? That is very unfair.

Blue - Moneyhatting third parties is not how the industry should work in the first place. Third parties should feel privileged that the hardware companies took a risk far greater than they have ever taken to produce an install base for them.



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