Why has Japanese 3rd party support almost completely ceased for the Wii?

[trestres]

darthdevidem01 said:

trestres said:

darthdevidem01 said:
It may have been a very long time since a Japanese dev made a significant announcement for wii BUT it definetely hasn't been a long time since your last thread discussing this SAME issue.

I think I have been discussing it at the end oflast year but I waited a bit because some people told me we were too early into the year to call it a trend. And we haven't heard of any projects so far. It's a bit worrying seriously. 3DS is around the corner and I don't know if that's good for the Wii or any other current gen console for the matter.

Every week I'm waiting for at least a little announcemnt in the Famitsu magazine and Wii is never getting anything. The announcements head to every other platform but the Wii. Even Nintendo will be publishing 3rd party games in the West.

1. Wii got The Last Story AND Xenoblade announced actually....so your wrong.

2. After the DS launched, Wii & PS3 came 2 years after that.....so if the 3DS launches around 2011 (not counting delays), then we should expect PS4/Wii2/Xbox 720 around 2013 - 2014 which is possible.

3. Its been clear for 1 year now that the wii wasn't ever going to get support like a "winning" console would get....so whats the big deal?

1. Those are 1st party games, did you read the OP :S?

2. The 3DS will be launched this year in Japan most probably. And that means nothing either way. If Nintendo feels that the Wii is not a viable console anymore they will just move on, they don't follow trends. There was no need to announce 3DS, but they did it I guess to have the advantage of beig the 1st ones to enter the 8th gen.

3. It was clear that the PSP was dead in 2007 but all of a sudden it resurrected. Same with the PS3, but with the Wii it seems there's a dislike from devs. They don't want to try and they don't care.