| MikeB said: So far the only software publisher harvesting outstanding profits from Wii game sales is Nintendo. For example according to this week's US sales figures sales of Spiderman 3 for the Nintendo lags significantly behind XBox 360, PS2 and PS3 sales of the game. I think one problem with most multi-platform games is that the Nintendo Wii version will look much weaker compared to the other versions, if done well on those higher specced platforms. Nintendo fans mostly seem to buy Nintendo's great games, of which there is no comparison version available for other platforms. |
I'm not too sure it has nearly as much to do with graphics as you would assume ...
One of the reasons Nintendo always dominates (in terms of sales) on their own platform is that Nintendo fans seem unwilling to support shitty games; games like The Legend of Zelda, Super Paper Mario, and Wario Ware will have (very) long shelf lives because in a slow month when your options are to buy Spiderman 3 (a very poor game) or something you haven't played yet gamers will pick up an "old" high quality Nintendo game rather than Spiderman 3.
I know what you're saying "Not ever Nintendo game is high quality" but if you really look into it Nintendo's poor games usually are pretty well executed. Consider that Excite Truck only had an average of 75% on Gamerankings.com (the lowest Nintendo made Wii game except for Wiiplay), the breakdown of scores looks like:
And the average User Rating on Gamerankings in 8.5
