| flail said: I think developers hate Wii not because they can't make games as good as the first-parties but because when they do it, the games don't sell. On the opposite side, if they make some low cost shovelware it sells very well and they earn a lot of money. See Ubisoft, for example. They know how to make great games. In fact, it was what they have done all those years and its games sold a lot. But on Wii, they have things like My Fitness Coach, Gold's Gym: Cardio Workout and Just Dance. At first, they didn't care about Wii. Now, they see it as a good cow where they can get some milk to the HD projects. |
First party has an advantage over third party with it comes to time and resources for developing a game. Most third party do not have the money up front to develop a game for 1-2 years so they rely on a publisher which is interested in making a profit quickly as possible.
I would think it's hard for a third party to sell a game that's push Wii (very dated) gpu to the limt to a publisher unless it was Big N. It's a lot easier to sell to a publisher a low cost, quicker developing shovelware where they will make a quick profit.
