Seven early takeaways from the eighth generation

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FlamingWeazel said:

MikeRox said:
Third parties made the decision to write off the Wii in 2005/2006 prior to release and completely missed it's potential to resonate with a wider audience.

This is why third party software was all so poor in the early days of the Wii back when gamers in particular were still hungry for Wii software. By the time they'd realised there was a huge market on Wii and started to make proper games for it, the 2-3 year development cycle of the software meant they had missed their chance.

"Hardcore gamers" had already given up on the Wii for anything beyond Nintendo software and the new "casual" gamers didn't give a crap about those games.

So while Nintendo have never really been great with their 3rd party relationships, a lot of the 3rd party issues on Wii lie squarely at the foot of the 3rd party developers.

No the onus is on Nintendo to harness third party support and NO ONE slse, this is all nintendos doing.

not to mention it was all on Ninty when they decided to make cheap hardware that was essentially an overclocked GC, 3rd parties already had moved on to more powerful engines and HW