OttoniBastos on 30 June 2014
| Shadow1980 said: #1: They're not biased against Nintendo, per se. Nintendo just doesn't make hardware that third parties like to develop for. Nintendo had inferior third-party support compared to the PS1 and PS2 because of their choice of format (first cartridges and then mini-DVDs), then they had inferior third-party support last generation and this generation because the hardware just isn't powerful enough and is centered around a gimmick. Because nearly all gamers have moved to non-Nintendo platforms to get their third-party fix, third parties also see Nintendo platforms as hardware designed to appeal mainly to Nintendo fans. There's no financial incentive for most to bother with a system that's only as powerful as systems that they're going to abandon in less than a year. If Nintendo made a conventional, sufficiently powerful system, third parties would start giving Nintendo their full support again. #2. People buy Nintendo systems to play Nintendo games because of the lackluster third-party support. There's not much market for a system like the Wii U outside of fans of Nintendo games. History shows that lack of third-party support can severely limit sales. The Wii is the exception to the rule: it got lucky due to a combination of affordable price, brilliant marketing, and a gimmick that resonated well with non-gamers. #3. The Xbox is tanking because A) PR debacles from last spring, B) a launch price of $500, which was the result of bundling an accessory that most didn't care for, and C) it's not a Sony console, which automatically puts it at a huge disadvantage in Europe. |
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Wii sold mainly for the smartphone shovelware crowd.People who hardly played videogames before and didn't have smartphone/tablet at that time(2006) to play with.That's why the "gimmick" resonated so well with the demographic.For gamers(with the exception,of course,of the hardcore nintendo fan) Wii was a secondary console that they would buy only after pick a PS3/360/PC.
