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

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

joeorc said:

Wyrdness said:

milkyjoe said:
Do Microsoft and Sony really promote third party games themselves? I was always under the impression that those commercials for third party games with 'available on 360/PS3' stuck at the end were run by the developer/publisher themselves, and Sony/MS had merely paid for the bit at the end... I mean, you can immediately tell the difference between a Sony ad for a first party exclusive and an ad for a third party game on a Sony console...

You're right they are from publishers themselves, MS/Sony pay to have their console mentioned specifically unless it's a first/second party in which case they would be the publisher. If you look at FFXIII ads they have the available on 360 bit tagged on to give people the impression that they need a 360 for FFXIII, MS pay SE for this.

promote by Collins

1. 1) verb, to further or encourage the progress or existence of
2. 2) verb, to raise to a higher rank, status, degree, etc
3. 3) verb, to advance (a pupil or student) to a higher course, class, etc
4. 4) verb, to urge the adoption of; work for
5. 5) verb, to encourage the sale of (a product) by advertising or securing financial support
6. 6) verb, chess to exchange (a pawn) for any piece other than a king when the pawn reaches the 8th rank

so to Help with Cost's do you think 3rd party developer's need Cash to help sell their Software?

If you want me to make a Game for your system, would you think that 3rd party's are more likely to make a game if your company is willing to help off set the cost's in promotion of the 3rd party's software?

Sony an Microsoft do that.

but

do you See Nintendo doing that as much as Sony or Microsoft does?

Now if Nintendo is less likely to put promotion Money into the 3rd party's project while both Sony and Microsoft are what do you think would happen?

First off, I'd just like to say your use of dictionary.com and wiki to try to prove your point is rather pompous.

Second of all, as I have shown time and time again, Nintendo has done more this generation to try to get third parties to work on the Wii than all of the past generations COMBINED.  They have helped fund exclusive third party games with their own dime, bought entire game development studios such as Brownie Brown and Monolith, and even promised to produce and promote games that third parties weren't even going to bother to bring over to America or bother to market themselves (do games like Monster Hunter Tri and Dragon Quest IX ring a bell?).  So this notion that Nintendo isn't working with third parties is grossly misinformed.  And not only are they working with third parties, they have been quite strongly since the GC days.

And frankly, I think that this idea that the 'big three' now need to subsidize all third parties is stupid.  Why do all third parties suddenly need favors?  This is essentially like saying game developers will not make a game for a particular console unless they are sufficiently bribed.  So in effect, third parties are working for Microsoft and Sony because they pay them to?  Are Microsoft and Sony now rival mob bosses who are dealing money under the table to keep their 'cronies' happy?  I can remember a time when people were flocking to one or another system, be it the NES or the PSX, and working on those systems because it was profitable.  Not because that company paid them 'sufficient kickbacks'.  And you never heard anything about Sony or Nintendo or whoever spending X amount of millions to pay for a game to be 'exclusive' or funding a project.