Who believes Wii's successor will have better third party support?

[Veder Juda]

Calmador said:

Vertigo-X said:

Calmador said:

My money is on Nintendo sticking to the casaul, non-gamer market and basically being the way it is now because it's easier... but I think it won't be as successful this time around because all those kids playing Wii right now... are growing up and will be the Teens of next gen and will want play big boy games more. That said I predict next gen will be the gen of Teen and Mature games and I hope Nintendo gets a well deserved hit for thier betrayal to a good chunk of thier traditionand fanbase (I know some of themare actually okay with Nintendo right now... as hard as that is to believe) become the next Sega and then Apple come out with the AppleBox and blow all the consoles way super high tech graphics and games haha jk

LOL! You do realize that that argument has been around for close to if not over 20 years?

 

I'm luvin' it!

Glad you enjoyed it... I actually didn't know that opinion existed for 20 years and thought it up myself, is it less of an opinion because it's been around for 20 years? No... but the time the opinion is given could vary the outcome of it being right or wrong. Anyways I think I make pretty good points.

There's one major difference between then and now, third parties supported Nintendo back then, they don't now.  This is important, bebcause a lot of the people who switched from Nintendo to Sony were following the third parties as they migrated; a lot of the gamers were not Nintendo fans, they were Konami, or Capcom or Square fans, who bought Nintendo consoles because that's were those third parties were.

Now, third parties haven't been supporting Nintendo, so the people who are buying the Wii, are buying it for Nintendo's games; if they become dedicated gamers, they'll be dedicated Nintendo fans, and will be more likely to stick with Nintendo in the future.

As for kids growing into teenagers and wanting the T- & M-rated content on other consoles, what do you think is going to happen when those teenagers grow into adults, getting jobs and starting families of their own?  Those obligations are going to cut into game time, and some will give up on gaming altogether; and those that have kids and want to play video games with them, what console are they going to buy?  Sony may be able to capture gamers as they become teenagers, but 5-10 years later, they will lose them.