| BengaBenga said: It depends on the type of games. FPS: No Racers: No RPG's: Yes Adventures: Yes Sim: Yes Platform: Yes Puzzle: Yes Startegy: Yes |
I think the FPS titles will come. They certainly won't come at the same pace as the Xbox360 which will one day be synonomous with the genre the way the old TurboGrafx-16 is synonomous with scrolling shooters, or the old NES is synonomous with platformers.
By the end of this generation, I think the Wii has the potential to have the greatest, strongest, and best library and third party support. It's sales are still not slowing, and third party companies are taking hefty notice. Ubi-Soft and Capcom have been smiling all the way to the bank from their support of the system--even though Ubi-Soft had many lackluster releases. Like the DS, the Wii required a "warm-up" period where the developers had to get used to the system and the idea that it was selling like mad. The DS now sees very strong third party support (already with a third exclusive Castlevania on the horizon), and continually high sales.
One major thing stands in the way of third party success on the Wii: Proper advertising and promotion of third party titles. Once Nintendo allows for downloadable demos on the Wii, and third party companies get smart enough to pour some money into hocking their wares, sales will definitly improve. One reason that dreadful Carnival Games is selling well is because, surprise surprise, it's one of the few 3rd party titles on the Wii to get regular advertising. The same goes for My Sims. Two lackluster games that are selling well where the other truly lackluster (and downright awful) titles are wallowing in their own digital feces. There are only about 4 third party Wii games that sold amazingly well despite having little advertising support: Resident Evil 4 (which sold more than 3 times what Capcom had originally planned), RE: Umbrella Chronicles (because it is an RE title), and Red Steel and Rayman Raving Rabbids which had the fortune of being launch titles. But then again, unlike RE4 or RE:UC, Red Steel and Rayman did receive limited televised advertising, which no doubt helped their cause.
I could almost guarantee that if Ubi-Soft had been smart enough to spend the money on heavily promoting an actually good game like No More Heroes, it'd also be on track to grab million-seller status with it's somewhat less impressive Ubi-Soft counterparts.
If the third party companies dedicate themselves to a little (or a lot in some cases) more quality in their works, and put some money into advertising, they'll see rampant success. After all, the Wii is the console that's getting picked up by former and non-gamers. There needs to be more than just an ad a video game magazine to reach those people. If they had advertised No More Heroes during, say, Lost or CSI or South Park or something, they'd have a major hit on their hands. In a sense, it's a miracle that game garnered the success that it did with it's painfully small advertisting campaign.
