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Carl on 21 September 2010
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Smeags said:
Carl2291 said:

I've actually been saying that for a long time now. Or something along them lines.

Nintendo's direction with the Wii, is why the Wii itself gets the party games and shovelware games... Not the huge "Hardcore" blockbusters that the HD consoles get. It's the audience they have advertised the Wii to since the console released, and that audience earns developers lots of money.

Why would Ubisoft for example spend Millions upon Millions of $$ making an Assassin's Creed like game for Wii, when you can spend minimal resources and time making a game like this, this or this... That earns a good and easy profit?

At least the 3DS is getting great support from the start.

Yeah, I think that that's one of those unforseen things that neither Nintendo nor the rest of the industry realized when the Wii was released. I mean, I still find it funny that Wii has sold the most consoles out of the big three this generation... no one (not even Ninty) saw it coming. With its weaker architecture and motion controls... obvious 3rd place console. 3rd party dump!

I think Nintendo's biggest mistake with the Wii is that it made it an "us or them" console... and despite being the clear winner that sells a lot of software (and a lot of 3rd party software), 3rd party devs obviously feel safer about putting their big projects on the "HD Consoles" (creating a lack of legitimate exclusives this genertion, but that's another story) 8 out of 10 times. Wii will get a Monster Hunter or an Epic Mickey from time to time, but it's still a rareity (still, Wii has been an awesome console for smaller, more experimental games like Little King's Story and Muramasa, so there's gems everywhere. Platformers thrive too, which I'm always okay with. ^_^)

All in all, it's been an interesting generation lol. The only thing we can really fall back on for a PS2-like dominating console is the DS.

I think everybody, including Nintendo... Was expecting the Wii to perform worse than the Gamecube did. That's why they went the simple way HW wise and were making massive profits from day 1. Not really upgrading the console hardware all that much and taking a big risk with the motion control and the expanded market. Fortunately for Nintendo, that risk payed off in the bucket-loads.

It didn't get the great early support from developers because of 3 reasons IMO -

  • Everybody was expecting the PS3 to dominate with the 360 bringing up 2nd place.
  • The 360 tech makes it very, very easy for developers to put games straight from PC to console. Thus giving the 360 a whole bunch of support. This support was then ported to PS3 (rather shoddily). The game engines big developers were making supported those 2 HD consoles.
  • Gamecube sold rather poorly.

As of right now... Wii is by far the generation winner. Easily. I feel that the problem NOW though, as I said before... Is the direction Nintendo have taken that success.

Next generation, I have 100% confidence when I say that you can expect Nintendo's next console to have absolutely excellent 3rd party support... IF they make it HD, so games can be easily ported to/from one (or both) of the other consoles.

As for the DS. On Hardware, sure. I disagree on the software side of things though, as it doesn't sell EVERY genre well, being hampered by the HW itself. 3DS on the other hand... That's likely going to be your PS2. Both Hardware AND Software-wise