| Girl Gamer Elite said: I really don't ever see third party developers taking the Wii seriously, despite its success, this will probably be just another generation where only Nintendo games thrive on a Nintendo console because third party developers made it so. Third party developers seem to have been so spoiled by conglomorates like Sony and MS which rely largely/solely on third party support and have money to throw around that its no wonder why real gaming companies like Sega couldn't compete. Oddly enough though Atari, Sega and Nintendo all seemed driven by fate to make foolish mistakes allowing this to happen. Its only Nintendo's keen business sense that has allowed them to survive this long. But it seems once the developers had their taste of the good life on big business consoles they don't want to go back to an era where they have to compete without offers of purchased exclusives, handouts, favors or gracious financial assistance. In response to Sony's fall they scrambled to resolve their shaken once held certainty in the market by adopting new and cowardly strategies of randomly sprinking their exclusives on all the consoles in hopes of assuring themselves at least some profit if not a foot in every door no matter what the future brings for the consoles. They've become so lazy in wake of Sony's domination that they don't even know how to approach a generation not owned by Sony. In the end, its the consumer who is made to play the fool because developers don't want to venture the slightest risk in investing in any one console over another. Franchises are haphazardly split across multiple consoles, spin-offs and rehashes are the new answer to multi-platform support. Lessons learned in generations past are quickly overshadowed by fears of an uncertain future and an upstart return of gaming's former king which defies everything they've held to be sacred in gaming's past. |
I really don't agree. Let's not forget that Nintendo wasn't the nicest partner in the past and that it upset a lot of developers (especially SE) by sticking to the cartridge format. Also it's quite normal that developers weren't cheering to develop for Nintendo's newest console. After all the Gamecube was quite a disaster, which wasn't the fault of the 3rd parties, and Nintendo took a very uncertain path with Wii.
Now Nintendo proved that the Wii is a very attractive console which has amazing sales I'm sure the developers will show very good games for Wii. In a sence I feel Nintendo is going back to the SNES days, with big profits for Nintendo AND 3rd parties.
I even want to make this bet with you: There will be at least 15 3rd party games reviewed this year that recieve an 8.5 or higher on IGN of which five even above 9.0. For reference: this year there were 7 above 8.5 of which 2 9.0. If not I'll put an appology in my sig+you can determine my avatar for a month. Deal?
