Should Nintendo buy third party support?

[Joelcool7]

misterd said:

NJ5 said:

The real question is, why don't 3rd parties get a clue and just start making more good Wii games? Don't they have market analysts who are supposed to see the potential for profit there?

The Wii is selling just fine as it is, and it's making very good profit for Nintendo, so I don't see why Nintendo should spend money to educate 3rd parties. I say let them sort it out by themselves.

 

C'mon, you've been around long enough to sing the tune:

 

No one expected the Wii to sell this well. Most 3Ps abandoned the Cube and had little faith in the new system. By the time they caught on, it was too late to capitalize before the holiday season. Supposedly most developers have moved more resources to Wii development, but because of the time involved, we wouldn't see the results for at least a year - which would mean mid-2008 to early 2009.

 You are both majorly wrong. UbiSoft and many other leading publishers like Sega were backing Nintendo from the get go. Even from before the revolution was unvieled, however third parties have been slow to invest in Nintendo Wii specific technology.

 Many publishers and studios are only now considering building graphics engines or tools. Without the tools companies have relied heavily on porting games and using existing PS2/GameCube technology. With studios let JetBlack and Factor5 promising to use engines built from the groundup for the Wii I think 2009 will be an amazing year.

So your both wrong and right and alot of people think Factor5 is being liscensed a first party IP!