The Industry being stubborn

[Carl]

RolStoppable said:

Carl2291 said:

Soma said:
Carl, so you're saying core gamers that might be interested by the game, they lost interest after watching the advertising? C'mon that's not true, a core gamer knows what's this game about and don't care of advertising or reviews. If he likes platformers knows very well what's Mario 2D about.

The advertising was clearly for the expanded audience, but the game isn't just for them.

No, i'm saying the advertising brings in the whole bunch of "casual" gamers to the Wii. Nintendo are currently marketting the machine to that specific group, and have been for as long as i can remember. This means 3rd parties will focus mainly on that group. Thus, the games targetted at them have been selling really well since the Wii launched. As of right now, i point you towards games like Just Dance, EA Sports Active, The Biggest Loser, Walk It Out.

Since you are so proud of this point, I should confront you with an interesting thought:

The way the DS is advertised is very similar to the Wii. But for some reason the DS gets flooded with core games by third parties, including genres that had no Nintendo precedent of having an audience. And those games sell well, otherwise they would stop being made. So what makes the Wii so different from the DS?

It's all the Western third parties. They don't mind Nintendo being the dominant player in the portable market since historically they never really bothered with handheld games and they still don't really do. If you made a list of the 100 best handheld games made in the past 20 years, the vast majority would come from Japan, because Japanese third parties don't see portables as second rate gaming machines.

Home consoles are a different story. That is where the blockbusters go and so far, no Western third party has made a AAA game for the Wii. Japanese third parties don't seem to be so much anti-Nintendo, but most of them prefer the HD consoles because they want to be like Western third party publishers. You can get that from interviews where Japanese developers state that the Japanese gaming industry has fallen behind its Western counterparts (while ironically it's a Japanese company, Nintendo, that rules the worldwide sales charts).

Because the PSP is to be fair, rubbish for software sales, only has 30% of the market and is filled to the brim with piracy. DS is the best alternative out of the 2 despite piracy also being big on DS.

Wheras if you look at Wii, it has 2 direct competitors that are seen as one because of how similar they are. They both collectively have greater marketshare and also have much less piracy than PSP.

I think if the Wii had 70%+ marketshare right now we would be seeing the same thing as what happens with DS and PSP.