| RolStoppable said: Well, analysts and third parties certainly saw things differently when it came to DS vs. PSP. The core market isn't just communities on message boards and the initial sales of third party core games on the Wii weren't bad at all, if you consider the budgets of these titles. Wii owners clearly wanted core games and not just from Nintendo. But more importantly, it never had to be an "either or" thing like it turned out to be. Third parties could have put AAA games on all consoles, but the Wii only got B and C titles aside from a couple exceptions. However, for some odd reason those games are expected to sell like AAA titles on the HD consoles and if they don't (which they of course don't), it's said that the Wii can't sell core games and third parties have their excuse to keep putting all their AAA games on the 360 and PS3. The 60 % mark, in any case, is probably enough to push any investor over the edge and demand the best games to be made for the leading system. With the Wii it's just so that third parties sometimes tried to do their best to fail. I mean, just look at that new Ghost Recon game for the Wii. Sometimes I think that fanboys are in charge of some third party companies and certain games are just made to mock Wii owners. Either games that virtually nobody wants to buy or PSP versions of popular IPs with no intention to bring a similar game to the Wii. |
Yep, I'd have to generally agree with you on all of this.
Interesting thing is, I've said for years 2012 will user in the next gen, but, with the PS360 getting the odd support for 'losing' systems and at least the PS3 not really hitting the sub $200 price yet, do you think its possible the Wii will get replaced before they do and that they will let it get a significant lead on the next gen? Its not too far out there considering PS2 launched first when PS1 was still healthy.
