Wii is a HUGE software seller!

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StarcraftManiac said:

mrstickball said:
I think the big question is (for me): when will we see a 3rd party have the kind of breakout succuess, in terms of the uber-numbers for more "typical" gamer fare from 3rd parties?

The DS has had those sorts of titles for awhile now - your Prof. Laytons, Cooking Mama, and the like. But the Wii, thus far, just has Carnival Games (a spinoff of Wii Sports/Play), and Guitar Hero 3. Outside of that, it's been budget succuess, or games that seem to be overtracked by VGC.

Time will tell. But for 3rd party developers, seeing the top 10 or 20 being almost entirely dominated by Nintendo, while big 3rd party games are much lower on the list...Is not a good thing.

That's because the top 10 for Wii software will soon exist solely out of 5mil+ sellers... You know, games that sell 500k on a system like the Wii can make a rather good profit! So i really don't get the point!... Or am i missing something here?!... And with what kind of crap most 3rd-party developers are coming they sometimes don't even deserve half of that!... Because they obviously CAN do better if they just wanted to spend time on their games for Wii... Because casual doesn't equal gimped graphics and less gameplay, although some devs tend to think so!

 

EDIT: And it's just a matter of time until the Wii starts getting big 3rd-party projects more frequently. Re4 and stuff were just to 'test' the watters (of the so called Blue Ocean, lol). And now that the Wii has garnerd such a grotesque userbase so quickly there are more and more 'hardcore' or bigname games coming to the system. Games as

-Fatal Frame.

-Monster Hunter.

-Tales of Symphonia.

-Okami.

Etc...

None of those games will sell 5 million though