Rath said:
You might note though that the only one of the huge sellers in those genres that isn't made by Ninty is Just Dance, Nintendo seems to have had great success on the casual market but other companies struggle to replicate it. |
Well depends what you define as "huge seller." If you mean over 4M in sales then yes that's true. If you're talking about Wii games that have sold more than a million copies then there are a ton of 3rd party games. I would classify most of those million seller games that I listed as hits.
Kinect is going to be a success because 3rd parties need it. Selling their casual games on 1 platform in many cases is not enough for them to make back their money. On Kinect 3rd parties don't have to compete with Nintendo for sales, so they have a better chance of standing out (ie: Your Shape Fitness Evolved). Kinect & Move gives 3rd parties a bigger userbase to sell to. They can make one game for Wii that they would have made anyway and then port it across all 3 platforms now.
