| FinalEvangelion said: I'll probably get flamed for saying this, but I will go anyway.
It is true that EA is not giving good games for the Wii and I wish they would. However, I think Nintendo needs to take some of the blame for all this third party problem. Historically, they have shown that they have had troubled relationships with third parties. Sony and Microsoft probably give a little more help on marketing than Nintendo does.
At the beginning of this generation, the third parties almost dropped the PS3 for development and were going to do all HD exclusives on the 360. Kaz Hirai had to do alot to keep the 3rd parties from doing that (apparently, begging on his knees according to an article).
I think it's time Nintendo show some more effort in this area if they want to have a more solid 3rd party foundation. |
The thing is though that I think Nintendo have done equal to either Sony or Microsoft individually to help 3rd parties this gen. From the top of my head:
They've published loads of 3rd party titles which might not have been localised otherwise such as Prof Layton, Trauma Centre, Dragon Quest IX, Tenchu, Samurai Warriors 3 and in January Ghost Trick.
Nintendo also marketed Monster Hunter 3, it had easily the largest marketing campaign for a 3rd party Wii title here in the U.K.
Nintendo actually launched a new major peripheral with an entirely 3rd party launch. Wii Motion Plus launched with only Tiger Woods and Grande Slam Tennis, WSR released a couple of months later.
Third Party Hardware Bundles - Nintendo released bundles containing the Wii, a classic controller pro and either Tales of Graces or Monster Hunter 3.
Nintendo helped produce 3rd party titles. Examples include Miyamoto designing a minigame for Samurai Warriors 3, Retro helping with the controls on Red Steel 2 and Nintendo assisting in all the Mario & Sonic games.
Nintendo let their 1st/2nd parties help create games for 3rd parties. For example Intelligent made Dragon Quest Wars, Genius Sonority made Dragon Quest Swords and Monolith made a Super Robot Taisen game for the DS.
I don't know about you, but I think that's quite a lot
