Take-Two thinks GTA on Wii is laughable

[Bodhesatva]

I hate GTA, but this is still starting to become a disturbing trend. The Wii is outselling all other systems by a handy margin, and has now sold the most software worldwide for 5 weeks running, in the middle of the Christmas season. It's going to continue increasing its share of hardware and software over the next few months, at the very least, and is likely to continue doing so for a long time beyond that.

And yet, nobody is putting their big games on the system thus far. I know, I know: wait for developers to become free again. Wait years for development of the Wii game after that. Wait, wait, wait, I know. But no one is even TALKING about the Wii in these "I want to put my big game on this platform" terms.

And it really does shock me. Are... all these companies just A.O.K. with Nintendo out-profitting the rest of the industry combined? Because that's precisely what's happening here. Let me repeat that for emphasis: Nintendo is likely to easily outprofit the rest of the industry combined this year, thanks in large part to the fact that 100 percent of their software efforts are on the Wii and DS. Wouldn't other companies want a piece of the action? In the absence of any serious third party efforts thus far (Save a few by Capcom), Nintendo is absolutely killing, positively slaughtering everyone in profits, marketshare, and growth... and yet, no one is doing anything about it. I would absolutely love to be a fly on the wall during development and planning discussions from some of these major companies.

Perhaps I'll just wait some more.