| djstrykermx said: I just cannot understand when people say that third parties killed the wii, I mean when the good AAA games come along they DON'T SELL. There are many many examples: 1- No More Heroes 1 & 2 2- MadWorld 3- Red Steel 2 4- Prince of Persia (heard the wii version was really good) 5- Conduit 6- Many Multiplatform titles that simply do not sell on the Wii and sell on the HD consoles.
Then there are also additional ports such as the Resident Evil archives games adapted to the Wii-mote which didn't even chart in this site. Nintendo games sell very well on the Nintendo platform, no doubt. Mainly because Nintendo software usually means quality and people are just used to that. I think it is a smart business decision from developers/publishers to stop supporting the Wii with those types of games, because if they do not get a return on their investment, why should they care? To please fanboys? So in the end, to me the blame is on the customers who don't pay for AAA games on the Wii and that have forced the devs/publishers to make those tough decisions of stopping support for the platform all along. |
I think No More Heroes and Prince of Persia are two of the better examples. That should have sold pretty well. However, I think Madworld got "okay" reviews. With Red Steel 2, people associate the name with shitty games because of the first one. And the Conduit is just a "meh" fps. And the Resident Evil games...ports.
While I do think the consumer base is partially responsible for third party shying away (not every game Wii players got are bad), the same effort wasn't made on each console I think. It's very interesting, worst support of any market leader ever I believe.
