lol no Mario for two years? I wouldn't mind all that much as long as Nintendo gave us other franchises like Kirby, Donkey Kong and StarFox. If Nintendo gave us some of their other IP's I would actually love to see Mario go bye bye temporarily of course. But to achieve higher success among third parties, heck no.
As Puffy pointed out third parties did not do enough to build an audience at the beggining of the Wii. It is way to late for the FPS genre for example. RedSteel one had a massive audience it was a launch title , but UbiSoft screwed up an released it too quickly it turned out mediocre. Then their was our version of FarCry another flop which I purchased. Then for years not a single FPS so then suddenly studios want to make FPS titles on the Wii (Conduit) they put all this effort in and are suprised when the title doesn't sell. Why didn't it sell? The FPS market has just moved to the 360/PS3.
Their are still markets for some genres but studios and publishers neglected huge markets when they supported Wii. The publishers and developers were narrow minded. They saw Nintendo was having success with casual titles, excersize titles and family games. So every publisher focused in and made titles for those genres. This lead to the Wii becoming the console of choice for those genres, but turned off other potential buyers who turned to the competition for their fix.
Fact is you could release a Halo Reach clone on the Wii and it would not break a million. You could have the best ModernWarFare3 and it will not keep up with its 360/PS3 counterparts. Fact is the market for FPS titles and some other genres just isn't there.
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
