DanneSandin said:
Yeah I know... But it's a wonder that they didn't even try to do anything for Wii! I read once that Ubi had gone out and said that 45% of their income came from Wii titles... 45%!!! That's almost half of their earnings!!! From one single system... THAT should have encouraged 3rd parties to develop games. Sometimes I get the feeling that developers are just too lazy to come up with new ideas. They just keep producing the generic FPS's and other mediocre games without trying to do something new. |
I knew Ubisoft paid for the core titles with the money they earned from Wii, but i didn`t know it was that much.
You got to remember that Wii came after GC, a console that placed 3rd last generation - even after Xbox, the newcomer. Nobody knows how Nintendo aproached 3rd parties regarding Wii (the target base, etc.). So Wii`s bad rep. could have started since then, with developers not believing Wii could to the same for them as the HD twins.
This was the generation where the difference in power - no just graphics - was more visible and decisive then ever before. And still, it`s not true that 3rd parties just didn`t try. We had good games, we just didn`t have the top tier ones.
I`m not a developer so i don`t know what would it take to have a Wii port from a AAA Xbox 360 and PS3 game.
To be honest, i think that slowly the harcore gamers started going to Xbox 360, which came a year earlier and not only built itself a library but a market. And PS3, well, being the successor to PS2 and equivalent to Xbox 360 in terms of output, develping hardcore games for it was only natural.
Both MS and Sony had already fought for that market last gen and it was clear it would happen again. Nintendo knew, as well as 3rd parties, that going that route again wouldn`t work for them. There was no market there for them.
Not to forget that rapidly Wii became teh casual machine.
