| irstupid said: its basic bad analysts. all analysts thought ps3 woudl destroy, seemingly how 360 is simialr it too would do good and nintendo would suck in sales.
Nintendo destroyed in sales and so the company heads looked and went "hmm these games sole 10 million, make a shit ton of those types of games" meanwhiel continue making the games you were working on, which were for 360/ps3 Then needless to say the shitty shovelware that was released on Wii did not seel 10 million, meanwhile a hit or two such as call of duty sold big on hd systems. Thus they continue to do great support on those thinking that the audience is there and wii sucks. |
It's easy to blame third parties but Nintendo didn't do a good job before the launch of the Wii to try to get third parties on board.
And from a publisher point of view I can understand how some of them were reticent to spend development money developing new games on a platform which aside from controls did not differentiate itself enough from the previous gen, especially when at the time the average PS2 game was selling for 40$ or less. There was a risk that customer would not consider that those games were different enough from those still selling on the PS2 and would not accept the price difference...
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
