| Bruno Muñoz said: I would like to say that regarding "Nintendo users don't buy third party games", at least accepted by the media, fallacy Wii shows otherwise. Lots of crappy third party games have had very good sales, games like MadWorld or The Conduit didn't deserve to sell more than 1 copy and yet they managed to do very respectable figures. B tier franchises, I'm being generous here because I should say C tier franchises, only have a chance to sell well on Wii because 99.99 percent of these games would have bombed terribly hard on the HD platforms.
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What I bolded is what I'm commenting on: That's an example of the overly negative attitude (towards non-Nintendo titles) that constantly keeps down the 3rd party companies. Why would they bother to make AAA-quality titles when A-quality don't sell (MadWorld is a high quality title in every respect, sans game length) because of this kind of attitude. As I pointed out before, mediocre-quality, hardcore titles on other systems routinely trump slightly higher-quality (though still mediocre) similar titles on other systems. Again, Haze generally scored about two (out of 10) points lower than The Conduit, but sold vastly better.
If Nintendo gamers are going to have that, dare I say, elitist attitude towards 3rd party games, while still wasting money on pure crap like another Mario Party game just because it's from Nintendo--then 3rd party companies are never going to care about putting their higher quality titles on the system. Again, Red Steel 2 & No More Heroes 2--very high reviews, shameful sales. Had they been on the Xbox360 or PS3, no doubt they would've sold much better. And I'm talking sales numbers, not percentages.
The RE:Chronicles games certainly aren't perfect, but they're still fun games, and effort was put into them--and they deserve sales. So does Dead Space Extraction, for that matter.
I'm not ripping on you or anything personally, but simply using your post to illustrate the elitist attitude that I believe is often found in Nintendo gamers (which I had back in the day, to be fair). Look at my collection now--I've grown a little.
