| disolitude said: First with licencing fees, then with expensive cartrige format...Nintendo has a history of crippling 3rd party devs when it comes to making games for their system and wii is no different. Look at multi million sellers for the wii and take away the nintendo ones...5 games left, 1 of which is any good...RE4(port). In comparison...there is 26 million 3rd party sellers for xbox 360 and wii has 3 million more consoles on the market. Microsoft and Sony pay you to make a game for them(exclusives)...they make ads for your games...they give you ways to promote games online with videos and demos. Nintendo doesn't bother with any of that...they just look at how to promote the next mario game and resell you an old game with new controlls. Why would THQ or anyone else bother? |
This is the same old argument that comes up everytime. There's not any good games on the Wii from 3rd parties that deserve a million sellers. RE:UC, MySims, Lego Star Wars are all just a few weeks away, so that's 3 more games to add to the 3rd party million seller list, only 1 of which is not a traditional game. I won't comment on your exclusion of GH3 from the "good" game list. 360 also has been out longer, which gives it a chance to sell older titles longer, which gives those games a better chance at hitting a million.
Many games on the Wii will start hitting a million by the end of the year, simply because they've been out longer. Any game that can sell 15-20k a week, over a year, will reach a million. So any game at 500k already only needs to average 10k a week to get to a million by the end of the year.
And once the Everyone's Nintendo Channel (or whatever it will be called) is released in America, that'll be a way to advertise games with demos and such. Even DS games.
And mars, the kickass game MP3 will sell more than MP2 in a few weeks. Over the next 2 years I expect it to pass 2 million.
