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Resident_Hazard on 28 February 2011
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Chairman-Mao said:
Resident_Hazard said:
Chairman-Mao said:

Yeah this part is very true. People have no problem buying anything with Mario in it or that is called Wii____(sports, music, play, etc.) but won't buy exclusives like Red Steel and Conduit which gives developers no reason to make anything more than a crappy party game to make a quick buck.

And the Nintendo fans act like they never understand why developers ignore Nintendo.  The ignoring started on the consumer side first, back on the N64.  Right now, there's a thread in the Nintendo section slamming Epic Games and complaining once again "why there are no Western (normally 3rd party) games on Nintendo systems."  

Why not show developers there's a fucking market for such things for a change?

haha yeah I just posted in that thread too. I don't get how people are surprised that western devs don't support the Wii when the only games people buy are Mario, Wii series, and party games.

Just looking at the top 16 selling Wii games I see 6 Wii series games, 7 games that involve Mario, Just Dance 1 and 2, and Zelda. Just ridiculous. 


I think a lot of them actually fear change or creative growth.  They praise Zelda time and time again despite the fact that the series hasn't had any growth or experimentation since Majora's Mask on the N64.  Rockstar was willing to give them an exclusive Grand Theft Auto game for the DS that played to the system's strengths, and rather than loving how they made it work, they bitched about how it was "different."  Same goes for Dead Space Extraction.  

I'm pretty sure that when Nintendo made the Wii and DS, they hoped that developers would be willing to test their creative muscles on the systems and play to the their strengths (even if Nintendo didn't).  Too bad Nintendo fans didn't want any such creative growth.  Chinatown Wars rocked.