Iwata: Nintendo plans to support third-party publishers more with 3DS

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LordTheNightKnight said:

loves2splooge said:

Third Parties have no excuses. If you make games with mass appeal to westerners, they will sell in the west. Games like Okami, Zack & Wiki, Little King's Story, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (typical western gamer: "wtf is a Tatsunoko? I want Marvel vs. Capcom"), Monster Hunter, No More Heroes, Trauma Team, Dead Space Extraction (rail shooter), Madworld and Muramasa didn't sell shit in the west (some of these were successful cult niche hits but you know what I mean) because they appeal only to geeks like us. Not the mainstream.

The kicker is a lot of those games still sold better than some comparable games.

Monster Hunter Tri is the only MH game to break a million on a home console. Not to mention only two MH games outsell it on the PSP.

Madworld outsold God Hand by a wide margin, and not only are they the same genre, but by the same director.

Tatsunoko in the first week in the US sold nearly as much as the entire Japan sales of the first run of the game (the second run was the updated version for the west).

Not mentioned, but Muramasa and Odin Sphere have comparable sales.

Basically,  this boils down to this ridiculous notion of not seeing niche games as niche just because they are on the Wii or DS.

People bringing up MH Tri sales forget that MH only skyrocketed in popularity AFTER all the PS2 games were out. IMO, MH Tri sales are disappointing.