| windbane said: I think the fact that you are pointing out a no-name developer getting picked up is telling. No one is saying third parties are ignoring the Wii. Quite the contrary, but most of the games aren't their main titles. I'd at least wait to see if the game is even good before pushing it as an example of a larger trend, rather than the exception. |
Actually, from what I have seen, quite a few people claim that the only types of games that third party publishers are intersted in are casual games like Carnivale Games and Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. The fact that publishers seem to be in a feeding frenzy (on a level that is typically reserved for developers like Epic Games and Free Radical) for a "No Name" developer should be very interesting; they probably aren't that interested in the developer based on their history as much as they're interested in the product that they're producing (which doesn't really stand out except when you consider the platform it is being released upon).
I could be wrong, but I suspect that publishers have looked at why Nintendo is so dominant on their own platform (they're the only developer producing high quality conventional games for the Wii) and they're desperately looking for developers to produce high quality conventional games; to a certain extent these developers are rare at the moment because a large portion of them started work on XBox 360/PS3 games which have very long development cycles.
