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Antabus on 07 January 2011
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jarrod said:
Antabus said:
Dv8thwonder said:

No because 3rd party developers are stupid. I mean how else would you explain their lack of credible software on a platform that single-handedly saved console gaming. It boggles the mind at how stupid they are and I shed no tears when they report losses or close down studios because they only have themselves to blame. /rant

How did Wii save anything other than Nintendo?

3rd parties are doing fine on Wii, they are aiming at the biggest wii demographic which does not happen to be you.

Nintendo's responsible for pretty much all the growth in this industry for the generation.

Besides, there are plenty of 3rd parties who've banked on Wii.  Sega, Hudson, Capcom, Activision, Ubisoft, LucasArts, Disney, Atlus, MTV, THQ... and not exclusively with casual games either.

The only 3rd party I can think of who really bet big on Wii and did awful as a result was Marvelous, and they (1) said it wasn't due to the platform but rather their own mishandling and lack of promotion and (2) they also started faltering on DS/PSP at the same time, and all their PS3/360 games have utterly tanked too.

Using logic from some other poster on this thread, if there wasn't HD-consoles there would be only 84m sold consoles this gen. Nowhere near the 190 million figure what last gen had.

Or how about comparing market leader with market leader, second place console with second place console and third place console with third place console?

Wii is 60m short of the 145m sales of PS2, 360 is 26m ahead of Xbox, PS3 is 25m ahead of GC. Looks like HD consoles are the ones responsible with the market growth! :O

Anyway, what of the "credible" games of those 3rd party companies on wii have saved them? I guess you can name a lot, since you agree that wii singlehandedly saved the gaming...