Wii software drought. Perfect time to open software studio's

[gumby_trucker]

So basically what it comes down to is the lesser selling consoles still have a few more years left in them, and are now experiencing a second wave of growth due to new peripherals etc. but the leading seller (by far, might I add) is already a saturated market?

I don't understand... is this industry about selling games or selling consoles??

because I'm pretty sure third parties don't make money from consoles... 

I'm no developer, but the only semi-decent argument I've heard on the development side was that the Wii doesn't have sufficient processing power and memory to take advantage of most of the new ideas offered by it's controller... This is something I can't argue with since I don't understand what it takes to make a game for the Wii, but the end-feeling is that if the Wii2 is indeed coming soon as many have speculated, then it feels like half a generation to me as a Nintendo owner...

Only in the last year or two have I started playing games that felt like an actual new experience compared to last gen...and only last year have I felt that Wii software was reaching a good level of quality from multiple publishers...

So I guess this industry is more about working on cool hardware than it is delivering compelling games.... so much for the 'games as art' debate... Anybody even remotely concerned with art knows full well that it takes mature tools and long-term experience with those tools to produce anything with artistic merit...

Art is about the creator expressing himself to the full extent of the medium, and not the other way around! -It is about the artist showing us his complete mastery of the medium through and through!

This is something that historically speaking, Japanese culture is more familiar with than western culture - just look at Japanese paintings as examples of creativity over a more limited medium... I guess western philosophy will always be about "bigger is better", "more expensive is better", "appearances over everything else", and so on...

Seriously, watching that latest Unreal tech benchmark from Epic just made me want to cry...

sorry, end rant