| Carl2291 said: Gen leader dying off first? Not natural. Gen leader dying off after "only" 8 Years? Not natural. NES lasted 20. SNES lasted 13. PS lasted 12 Years. PS2 lasted 13 Years. Its far from natural. Oh, and as for your other post, it has nothing to do with the "hardcore" trying to shit on the Wii. Its a sales site and the Wii has fallen way short of what many expected only 5 Years ago, with the follow-up console tanking HARD. Third party support is really important, when your 1st party studios are trying to support 2 platforms. That 3rd party stuff fills the gaps. It stops you having dry patches for Months on end, like Wii had in later Years and Wii U is having now. Nintendo need 3rd party support, because firstly the 1st party studios arent capable of pushing out system selling software every couple of Months and secondly, because consumers want to play these 3rd party games. |
In a way I'd argue the Wii was never the market leader.
Wii never went over 50% market share in total.
Therefore for a 3rd party a larger market existed on the HD consoles so developing a game for those made more sense than making one for the Wii.
