Legend11 said:
I'm sure the WIi will have lots of million sellers but I'm also willing to bet the majority of them will be games published by Nintendo. This thread is about a massive change in the industry which to me means the way third parties will go and third parties are still having success on the 360 and PS3 with their hardcore games dispite the spin some people try to put on it. Look at Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty 4, both will likely sell at least 5+ million copies, and both have been very good to Ubisoft's and Activision's bottom lines. The problem with the Wii is that it really is aimed at a different audience. Nobody is saying that the Wii isn't getting support, it obviously is by the number of games being announced for it, but look at the games themselves and it's obvious the vast majority are significantly different than what is being announced for the PS3/Xbox360/PC. There will be some overlap as shown by Guitar Hero 3 but anyone that thinks that publishers will suddenly shift all their hardcore games to the Wii are just kidding themselves. As for people asking for proof (like listing all the 360/PC/PS3 games starting development in 2007) well I'll ask the same thing. Show me all the hardcore games and major franchises that have begun or shifted to the Wii in 2007. I'm really only aware of about 2 or 3 like Monster Hunter 3 which I guess is a pretty big deal if you live in Japan but otherwise I don't see the flood of hardcore games that some people were predicting for the Wii earlier this year. |
You simply need to do the math. The largest install base will draw the most developers. Developers bet on the wrong horse early on, and now are forced to bite the bullet and start to invest in areas they've neglected, or they will get left behind. Your looking at it as a fan, and a fan only. If X company is ignoring a huge segment of the market, X company's shareholder is going to have a shit fit and demand that X company expand into the untapped potential, because X company's job is not to support fans of a system, but to make money for X company, and X company's stock holders.
That is real life, that is a cold hard fact, reality. Unless the Wii suddenly stops selling, you will start to see more "multiplatform" games going to the Wii, and then you will start to see in addition to those multiplatform games, new kind of games based off of those multiplatforms that are Wii exclusive.
Ofcourse fan of Y console or Z console or whatever are just going to go on and on and say they are all hardcore, blah blah blah. Unfortunately Y console and Z consoles supposed elite gamer are in the minority, the Wii will draw all kinds.
