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disolitude on 06 March 2008
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Stever89 said:
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.


I understand where your point of view is coming as I too feel that no good 3rd party games are coming out sometime. (I am a wii owner as well)

With 21 million consoles, ofcourse wii will sell games over time. most of those games now are 29 bucks anyways. I am thinking the big first week numbers...big first quarter sales. Wii can't get that from 3rd party games that are non party games or non Mario/Zeldas. Furthermore I pulled some information for you, xbox 360 vs Wii sales on similar games.

Madden NFL 08 2.15m vs 0.57m
FIFA 08  1.05m vs 0.47m
Need for Speed: ProStreet  1.13m vs 0.42m
Call of Duty 3 1.97m vs 0.36m

As far as no good 3rd party games for wii comment, that supposedly don't deserve million seller status -

Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros Treasure - 0.29m
Medal of Honor: Heroes 2  - 0.17m
No More Heroes - 0.17m

These games had good if not great reviews and with a demo on xbox live and some marketing push these games would have sold over 500K by now on the 360.

I am not saying nintendo wont change in the future and provide better support for 3rd parties, but they still have a long way to go before Capcom starts thinking of porting RE5 to wii.