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

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

theARTIST0017 said:

trestres said:

woopah said:
becasuse almost every advantge the wii offers to publishers is done better by the DS

Why then do PSP, PS3 and 360 still get more games than the Wii?

Because game developers discriminate and are biased. (I don't know about PSP though . . .)

Its as I already stated.  The DS is far more popular in Japan.  So third party developers are focusing on that in Japan.  And in the 'west', the HD consoles are the craze, even if they aren't the most popular system (which is still Wii and DS).  WHich gives third party companies an excuse to work on that instead of Wii.

So basically, in Japan, the DS is taking away third party support.  And in the west, the 'HD Consoles' is taking away its third party support.

jarrod said:

Soriku said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Its probably just a combination of most Japanese third parties are focusing more on the DS (the system that is by FAR the most popular system in Japan) and because most Japanese companies that try to make games for the Wii don't do very well.

I mean, if you look at all the major third party games on the Wii, there really hasn't been any major 'hit' for the system. Monster Hunter Tri is still trying to break through to a million, games like Little Kings Story and Muramasa didn't do all that great and major third party efforts like Fatal Frame IV and 428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de just outright bombed. Its literally getting to the point where third party developers, Japanese or western, are starting to look at the Wii as a system where they can only make a quick low budget game to make money because there's no guarantee if their game will sell 1 million copies....or 100,000. And most aren't being able to come close to that 1 million mark. To this date, only one third party Wii game has sold 1 million based on Japanese sales alone. There's 12 games on DS that can claim that prize.

Its like I've been saying for a while now, the biggest competition for the Wii is the DS. Its giving third parties an excuse not to make games for the Wii when the DS is much more popular and software sells 5-10x better on it.

MH3 hit a million a long time ago...and yes, in Famitsu.

I'd add to that neither Fatal Frame IV or 428 "bombed".  FF4 is actually the best selling game in the entire series, and 428 Wii is Chunsoft's best selling ADV game this gen (better than *anything* they've done on PSP, PS3 or DS in fact).

Also, Muramasa is Vanillaware's 2nd best selling game ever.  LKS was pure bomba though. ;_;

Its all how you look at it.  Did Muramasa and 428 make money?  Sure.  But on the most popular console and after being hyped as some of the best games the Wii has to offer....they should have done a lot better.  I mean heck, 428 got a perfect score in Famitsu and lots of hype in Japan, and still only sold 150,000 copies.  And I'm sure the developers for Muramasa are not complaining about the sales of their game, but its still far from a madly successful Wii game.

And Fatal Frame IV is really the best selling game in the series?  Last time I checked, it had only sold between 75,000-100,000 total.

Looking at all these totals, Little King's Story isn't looking so 'bomb' as before.  Its more like Japan just won't touch anything on the Wii without the names Mario, Wii or Resident Evil on the box.