disolitude said:
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 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 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. |
MOH definitely should have sold better... but it also didn't get any advertising, which I know is partly Nintendo's fault. It was a PSP port type game though... /shrugs.
The other two games aren't really meant to sell a lot, and definitely longer leg type of games. NMH hasn't been released in Europe, which seems to have a good amount of preorders, so we'll know next week with that one, since I believe it's released this week in Others.
I'll give you Madden 08 (even though it had a few glitches, and definitely wasn't as polished as the 360 version). Same with FIFA and Need for Speed, though I don't think Need for Speed was any good, and didn't get good scores, so I'm not sure if it deserved to sell a million.
Call of Duty 3, I won't give you, since that was released back at Wii's launch.
And yes, Nintendo does have a long way to go. But I think they need to increase production a lot so that they can actually advertise a system and games that will in stock. But 3rd parties need to pick it up. Enough with the PS2/PSP ports. Enough with the 3rd string developers making games. Enough enough enough. Make a quality game, like many of Nintendo's games, like RE4, RE:UC, Lego Star Wars, and it will sell.
