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potato_hamster on 23 August 2016
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KungKras said:
potato_hamster said:

You make it sound like Nintendo got bullied out of third party support by Sony and Microsoft.

Care to explain why third party games sold so poorly on the Wii with a 100 million install base? Developers didn't even care that Nitnendo was so terrible to work with, the install base has everyone clamouring to make Wii games! It's just too bad Wii owners didn't buy them.

I'm glad you mentioned the Wii. Because it proves my point. First to correct your major error. Wii did not get good support. Most of the industry hated it. Just look at gaming news articles from that time. If you don't agree about that then you have the memory of a gold fish.

There are examples on Wii that we can compare to other systems.

The age-old port of Resident Evil 4 sold on the same order of magnitude that the new release of it did on PS2.
Muramasa outsold its predecessor odin sphere by a lot.

Call of Duty 3 OUTSOLD the PS3 version.

It's always the same with you people," third parties sell worse on Nintendo, except for when they don't, let's not count it when they don't"


Memory of a gold fish? Nah.  There were over 1700 Wii games released. Most of them were third party. You can mention 3 third party games that did better on the wii than other platforms, and one of them was an exclusive, on a platform that sold better than the PS3 and X360.

You mentioned Call of Duty 3 - and sure it sold pretty well on the Wii. How did the sequel (World at War) do though? Not so great. How about its sequel, Modern Warfare 2? terrible in comparison to the PS3 and X360 copies. It's as if a couple million Nintendo fans decided to try out Call of Duty for the Novelty of it and decided they didn't really like it and lost intertest in subsequent years. And if Call of Duty, in its prime, on the biggest install base is getting absolutely shredded in comparison to PS3 and X360 sales, what game series actually can make it?

I actually made games that came out on the Wii. Lots of people put a lot of effort, and not so small budgets into Wii games (at least early on). Most of those games lost money or barely broke even. The only third party games that sold much of anything were Just Dance, and Sonic games. look at the effort that went into a title like Trauma Team. It sold less than 200K copies, and undoubtedly lost millions. Look at EA's sports games, like FIFA. Most of those games sold millions every year, but not on the Wii. Even with its giant install base, FIFA 09 sold less than a million copies world wide, when its PSP, PS2, PS3 and X360 versions all sold far more copies. Do you really think EA was putting more effort into the PSP version than the Wii version?

The Wii repeatedly showed that significant efforts for AAA third party Wii games were more than likely a total waste of time and money. It's ridiculous to state otherwise just because there's a handful of outliers.