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

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JGarret 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.

 

Viper,but if that´s the case,wouldn´t it mean major 3rd party titles would be going to the Wii only near the end of its life,when the 8th gen systems will be about to be released?

Would it mean the Wii´s successor will be the system that really benefits from the Wii´s success,and not the Wii itself,when it comes to 3rd party titles?

I'd say you're partly right. Yes WiiHD will benefit most, cause it will have the big 3rd party games from the start. Wii didn't, which is understandable considering the 3rd party failure GC was and the disruptive, unproven way Nintendo developed the Wii.

But I think we'll start to see the flood of big 3rd party games for Wii next E3. It takes at least 2 years to develop a great game. Developers now know for over a year that the Wii is a much bigger success than anyone (including Nintendo) would have imagined.

Monster Hunter 3 and Fatal Frame 4 are only the beginning. It will start with the Japanese companies, cause there the Wii hegemony is greatest. Western companies are more focussed on graphics, so will resist a little longer, but the big developers have no choice but to publish for Wii and small ones that gamled (like High Voltage and Red Fly) are already showing ver cool stuff (Conduit, Mushroom Men).