| Cream147 said: The top 15 selling games on Wii were all published by Nintendo. The highest selling third party game (according to Wikipedia) was Just Dance 2 in 16th place with 5 million sales - there were very few other third party games that were able to generate close to even that many sales. The Wii was a successful console, and yet no one cared about the third party support or lack thereof. |
Don't downplay the importance of third party games. A big selection of games gives the console owners more choice and the license fees play a big part in the profitability of a system.
According to VGC, 57% of the sold Wii games were'nt published by Nintendo (877m - 397m = 480m). License fees for 480 million games, no matter if the games are profitable or not... let the third parties worry about investments, budgets and profitability for these games.
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=1167&platform=Wii&genre=&minSales=0&results=1000
On Wii U, only 25% of the sold games (25.7m - 18.9m = 6.8m) were'nt published by Nintendo. License fees for 6.8 million units in 18 months... that's really bad.
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=1167&platform=WiiU&genre=&minSales=0&results=1000
