| albionus said: @marc An example of my advice. @shane A business doing what's most profitable, amazing. Of course Nintendo will still sell 60-85%(?) of games on the Wii even after it has sold 50+ million and is receiving AAA 3rd party games. The SNES and the NES were both very viable platforms for 3rd parties and they met those criterea. The N64 and GCN did not, small user base and lack of 3rd party support limited their sales. 3rd parties are going to have to make games for the Wii, they don't have a choice. the PS3 is going nowhere fast and the 360 will always have a limited user base due to MS' retarded decision to overprice the system. The 360 is not going to be able support 3rd parties alone. We'll begin to see this autumn just how many the 360 can support and the 3rd parties will begin to see just how much they are going to need the Wii. |
I agree. The price of consoles is getting out of control and out of reach for the average joe who has a family and makes between $40-$60k per year most of which is gone after mortgage, taxes, transportation and other living expenses. The 360 I believe has hit the affordablity limit but like you I think it is still too high for just games and then each game is $60... that isnt cheap for John Doe. I also think that the 360 user base is not as big as MS has led us to believe. We know they have technical issues. We know that at least 10-20% of their states "console sales" are not sales but replacements to broken consoles (if it isnt more).
I dont own any current consoles so I have no biases here but I have been around long enough to know that none of the these companies are clean and none of them deserve the respect some people give them. Theyve all done something dirty to someone at some point but if my livelyhood depended on it why would I not develop for the Wii? It make perfect sense. Lower costs & huge install base. /shrug
