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greenmedic88 on 08 August 2015
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
green_sky said:

Yep, Nintendo convinced all the third parties to make thier big games exclusive to Wii. 


Third party would've loved to port their third party over to Nintendo but the Wii was just too underpowered. They got a COD in World at War and that was pretty much it. As you said, they were forced to resort to exclusives which used the nunchucks because Nintendo couldn't furnish them with a platform that was on par in power. Its all about money and power. The Wii had that...but it just lacked the performance of the console itself. The Wii could've had a much larger and sustainable following if it was able to play the top multiplats as well.

It was likely a mix of the performance gap and the consumer base for the Wii. 

One of the first games I bought for the Wii was Far Cry. The prospect of playing an open world FPS using a pointer mechanics was extremely appealing. Unfortunately, the execution was horrendous and I'm not convinced it was simply due to a lack of processing power. It came off as a rushed and somewhat broken port. But it did play, SD resolution and all. 

So while quality of early ports like Far Cry might have deterred Wii owners from further support of such games on the platform (odds are high that Wii owner also owned an XB360 if they were in the market for FPS games), it more than likely boiled down to sales performance of said games that deterred Wii developers from further support. 

It really doesn't matter how much market share a product has if the majority of the consumer base for said product isn't buying the types of games a developer is producing.