The flight of third parties, my take on the Wii and its shovelwares

[Joelcool7]

Ummmm fleeing?

 

I read your thoughts and I have to say wah the hell are you smoking?

 

The reasons for third parties leaving the Wii are the non-10 million dollar budgets, lack of HD graphics and so fourth. Like hell thats why any developers are leaving the Wii, if anything those are positive benefits for developers. Instead of having to gamble 10+ million dollars on a game that might not do so well they can gamble less like 4-million on a game for Wii that is sure to at least sell 100k.

Developers migrating to PS3,360. Thats complete nonesense if anything publishers are migrating towards the Wii. EAGames , Disney Interactive , Hudson Soft, UbiSoft, Interplay, Majesco all have Wii specific development studios that only make Wii games. Then you have other publishers who are beginning to invest more and more into the Wii like THQ, Activision.

Now yes their are the many shovel ware producers like Bold Entertainment who produce one game after another using the same engine the same material over and over again. Cheap glitchy and void of any real substanance. However these publishers are using their ill gotten gains to begin work on legitamet products which could end up making them the next big publishers.

To be honest companies like High Voltage and JetBlackGames are simply taking advantage of the lack of enthusiasm in the games industry. Too many publishers are happy producing games on their older graphics/physics and AI engines rather then building new ones for the Wii. Many of todays game companies use established engines like Epic's Unreal engines, so they wait for somebody to make a better engine for them to use.

Epic did port the Unreal3 engine to the Wii. UbiSoft notably called it the Unreal 2.5 Engine which it began using in many of its Wii games. Fact is when JetBlack and High Voltage get there engines on the market developers are likely to pick them up and use them to improve their games.

So is their really a flight of third party support, No. Developers are cheaping out on the Wii because they can. When High Voltage and Jet Black up the standards they will be quick to change their ways. Infact within a day or so of High Voltage showing off their engine over 10-publishers had contacted them to liscense it!

10-publishers wanting High Voltages new graphics engine and the shooter Conduit. Is that seen as a shortage?