When will 3rd parties take the Wii seriously?

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omgwtfbbq said:

VAMP said:

 

That post almost proves all by itself that 3rd party games don't sell well on the Wii. It may look like they sell well when you look at the raw numbers in comparison to 3rd party games' sales on the PS3, but when you consider that the Wii has more than double the install base of the PS3, then you'd expect there to be more than double 3rd party games' sales than the PS3, which there are in million sellers, but not even close in 500k sellers.

What's your point? Third parties don't give a shit if games sell well "relative to the userbase". They'd prefer sell to 10% of the PS2 userbase than 20% of the Gamecube userbase.

 

Precisely.  And you are overlooking so many factors.  Third party PS3 games may have a better attachment ratio but if Wii 3rd party games sell more that's all the developer cares about.  If a Wii version of a game sells 500,000 and a PS3 version sells 350,000 of course the 3rd party would be much more satisfied with the Wii sales.  And this does not even take into account the difference in cost to make a Wii game compared to a PS3 game which means the PS3 game would even have to sell much more than a Wii game to make the developer the same amount of money.  And with the gap between Wii and PS3 growing each week developers are increasingly going to be better off making games for the Wii than PS3.  The only problem is the similarility between PS3 and 360 and their vast difference with Wii which means developers can make a game for PS3 and 360 to increase sales.  So until Wii has over 50% of the market share developers will continue to favour 360/PS3 over Wii for their blockbusters.