Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada discusses console war

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I see a lot of posters crying a river rather then discussing the topic. The Wii owners are not doing themselves any favors. You got an opinion from an unbiased source. Which explains much of where the industry is leaning. The theory that the Wii is more of a toy rather then a games console explains a great many things about its successes, and its failures.

The console sells fantastically well regardless of the titles available for it. Consider that a moment. No matter what games are released, or what titles the system has in North America, and in Europe the console will sell fantastically. Remove the core AAA games, and the sales do not even budge downwards. Nintendo only delivered two of their three big titles for the year, and one of those wasn't exactly smoking. No third party developer has even given the console a major title this year. Still the console sells well.

The logical conclusions is a simple one. The games are not selling people on the console. The console is selling people on the console. The control gimmick, and commercials with families acting like lunatics in front of a television screen. The games aren't actually important, and honestly thats why sources like Famitsu report the console sitting unused in homes after people tire of Wii Sports.

Other consoles appear to have a stronger core and hardcore presence. Those consoles owners buy more games for their console, and they buy more consistently. The 360 is the primary example of this. While I am sure there are some Wii owners out there with quite a library it is hard to imagine they make up the bulk of owners.

This argument that the console owners are just waiting for good games is utter nonsense. A gamer fiends for the experience of playing games so they would be buying the best games for the console even if they aren't all that impressive. A saltine is a banquet to a starving man. Seriously whats the logic of buying a console to only play a few titles, and wait for months till the next title you have to have.

He is just saying what many developers are thinking. The sales of the Wii look fantastic. The attach rate does not, and for a third party developer that does not look good. What good is it to develop a game for a console with a five percent attach rate, and to make matters worse they face off against Nintendo which is bound to get the first three purchases from consumers. They are in it to make money. They are in it to keep their jobs.

You have a problem with what he said then support your third party developers. Buy more games, and use your console more. Instead of hooking someone on the console hook them on the library.