Wii Userbase - What the #@??

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DarkD said:
There are plenty of non Nintendo franshises which I would gladly buy should they make a decent game. RE4 and RE UC I might just pick up, the FF and Fire Emblem titles if they come soon enough, and I am dieing to play Batallion Wars 2. Third parties are killing themselves on the Wii. If they wanna churn out crap for the Wii then I won't buy it. I do my research, I only plan on buying a game if it gets some high praise from reviewers.

This is the long and short of it, Shane -- and I might add it makes much more sense than your theory that people literally will choose not to buy good 3rd party titles "just because," with no explanation given why someone would behave that way (can you give one? I'd be curious, because it's not logical). Nintendo makes good games, and so people buy them. Historically, when other people have made games that are as good (or better) than those made by Nintendo itself, they do quite well, too.

The real problem is that Nintendo consoles have not done well compared to their competitors for the last 8+ years, and this has cost them considerable 3rd party support (who wants to make games for a console that has 1/2 or 1/4 the userbase?) The consequence is that considerably fewer great 3rd party titles have come to their systems. The few great games that HAVE come on their systems have done well -- again, thus disproving your position.