| RolStoppable said: I think we can all agree that 3rd parties focused for the most part on the HD consoles so far, that's why their games were on average better (review scores) on the 360/PS3 than on the Wii and also sold accordingly much better on the 360/PS3 than on the Wii. Now for 3rd parties it doesn't matter that much how many units they sold for each platform, but how their bottom line looks like when all is said and done. Here's a link to celine's thread with the recent financial reports of 3rd parties: http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=13273 5 of 15 are losing money and their combined losses are bigger than the combined profits of the 10 companies that made money. That's not how a healthy industry looks like. The current focus of development for the HD consoles cannot be sustained, 3rd parties will have to adjust and devote more of their money to development for the Wii and the DS. They really don't have a choice. Even though that means that they will have to compete with Nintendo on their own systems, there's plenty of money that can be made on the Wii and the DS, provided that 3rd parties actually make good games. Major 3rd party support for Nintendo systems is inevitable. For reference, Nintendo had a net income of more than $1 billion in the first half of its fiscal year 2008. The rest of the videogame industry combined isn't even in the black. |
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