Another Analyst Suggests Wii 1.5 On the Way

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mike_intellivision said:

Viper1 said:

theRepublic said:

jarrod said:

And I'm not saying core games do worse on the HD twins.  I'm saying sales of core games this gen have been self-fulfilling prophecy.  It's the same on HD as on Wii, 3rd parties decided what would sell, then they put that there and built those markets, then it happened.  There were early indications for a healthy core market on Wii (COD3 Wii outsold COD PS3 for example), but the content didn't follow to build that, and now it's a wasteland.  Too late to really change that imo, it is what it is.  3rd parties can now either face an apathetic (and in some cases hostile) Wii marketplace, or go HD where you have to go big to compete and fairly often go broke in the process.

Yes!

Someone gets it!

I'm going to second this nod of concessoin.

Nice summation. Everything that is and everything that is wrong with third parties.

The last time there was this much confusion, Activision was being castigated ... for delivering the same experience on different consoles (for basically offering the lowest common denominator experience to higher-end consoles during the classic era).

Mike from Morgantown

I agree, and this seems to be the source of the Wii 2 rumours.  Third parties know they screwed up on the Wii, and screwed up so badly that the easiest thing to do is to just pass on it, and wait for new hardware so they can start fresh.  The longer Nintendo waits on it just makes them looks like idiots, because every day that goes by without a Wii 2, is another day third parties had spent sitting on their behinds NOT trying to change their fortunes with the Wii.