Why third party core games fail(ed) on the Wii

[SaviorX]

Mr. Fister said:

SaviorX said:

There is no debate.

Ask anyone who isn't a forum dweller and they will tell you...

"I get the Nintendo/Mario games and stuff, but the Wii doesn't really have any good games." - Common person

The 3rd party games are terrible and terribly advertised, period. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. 98% of all Wii 3rd party titles have been made by the worst of teams with the worst of intentions.

This is not overexaggeration or hyperbole, it is absolute fact. I've been looking at the Wii getting dicked of good games for 4 years now and this is the inconvenient truth.

3rd parties don't want to support the console. On the PS3/360, they have free reign- Sony & MS first parties presence is fairly minimal so the inmates run the asylum. On the Wii, they would have to actually pull of something somewhat original and not have to rely on graphcial fidelity alone to get their poorly constructed game concepts out there. I own all the consoles and I enjoy every one of them, but all these "hardcore games" that people swear by and jerk off to are just trashy games in shiny clothing.

To end it here I will reiterate, 3rd parties have been near worthless on the Wii. If their games were good, people would buy their games like they buy the Nintendo ones. Name your favorite "AA-AAA" 3rd party Wii games and I can give you the laundry list of careless flaws behind them all.

Normally, I don't like to post stuff that doesn't really add anything, but I think you have the best non-OP post of the thread.

In other words, /topic really.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

EDIT: @greenmedic88

"I think this list probably illustrates exactly why 3rd party developers aren't using the Wii as a flagship development platform for higher profile, big budget games. These are the kinds of 3rd party games that the majority of the Wii user base has been buying...It's not necessary to make a big budget game for the Wii that is commercially successful."

Correction, These are the only type of games 3rd parties have ever attempted making. The only AAA game I saw from them was Monster Hunter 3, and that sold 1.6m and counting. RE4 was a port and that passed 1.7 million. The biggest budget I think a 3rd party has ever allocated for a Wii game is $10m for the original Red Steel; MH3 was probably more, but no number has ever been stated; not like it didn't recoup expenditures in the 1st week of release.

If I've said it once, I've said it 1 million times, you cannot buy videogames that DO NOT EXIST. You cannot buy games you have never heard of. You cannot buy a game no one wants to make.