Anti-Wii week continues: "Wii Is Nearing The End Of The Road"

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*bleu-ocelot* said:

Viper1 said:
Blue Ocelot doesn't understand that all major 3rd party titles out right now were planned and in development before Wii even launched and fails to consider the recent rash of studios announcing new support for Wii...some even opening a whole new studio just for Wii support.

Big budget game development is a 2-3 year investment. Developers wrote off Wii prior to launch so of course we aren't going to have many big budget 3rd party titles yet.

 

Those developers who are quick to jump on the Wii ''because''of its sucess are the ones cranking out shovelware and the few good games that do come out dont even sell that well(No More Hero's).

I can't agree. Have you browsed the sales for Wii section recently? There's quite a few third party platinum games, and countless more that have done quite well for themselves. I would also point out that you chose a very bad example in No More Heroes: while its sales may not be spectacular by the standards of a large studio, its done spectacularly for Grasshopper. They even threw a party to celebrate before it launched in Europe. And while I concede that there's quite a bit of shovelware on the Wii, there was a similar proportion of it on both Playstations. That was a deliberate tactic by Sony, one which is being mimicked by Nintendo now: let developers release whatever trash they want, since the law of averages dictates that some of those have to become gems.