Is Epic Mickey a lesson to third parties?

[MaxwellGT2000]

oniyide said:

@conegamer  thats kind of the point it would be nice to see those games but thats not where that kind of demograph is. Most Wii owners simply do not care about those kind of games thats why there not made for it. Why should a publisher risk making those games for a small portion of Wii's userbase??? this is buisness, not charity. Plus some forget the elephant in the room, which is the multiplat owner. I would bet my right ass cheek that there are far more of those than the Ninty fanboys, who refuse to buy another console for whatever reason.

You know risk vs reward is apart of business too right?  After so many developers and a couple of publishers have closed down this gen because of the massive risks, wouldn't you think it might be a little more logical to go for the base with less risk?  Honestly I'd like to see an interview with the developers that made Chronicles of Riddick, or studios like Grin, or publishers like Brash, ask them if the risk was worth it...

That's the reason why intelligent people debate for a few more developers/publishers to bring games to the Wii, they don't want to see those people lose their jobs, and they enjoy games... The game industry is nothing without developers and they need to stay in business for the industry to survive, I don't think anyone cares about trying to get every CoD and CoD like game on Wii, they formed their market on PS3 and 360, and it's done well by some developers, those other developers that can't take risks though should probably go else where, PC, Wii, DS, iPhone, and PSP are all better choices that won't leave their company in ruin.

@Silicon 

Yeah the entire premise of the game is built around Mickey Mouse, it isn't one of those titles you can take the IP away, they're inherently weaved together, take away one part and it doesn't work as a game... so no it wouldn't have sold anything cause it would have been a retarded game without Mickey haha Warren made the game purposely like that.