| The_vagabond7 said: I sort of agree with Shameless. The wii has the least spoils of any victorious console to show for right now, and unless 3rd party support changes big time in the next year (which is looking less likely), it's going to be a wierd kind of victory. Not that Nintendo will consider it a "hollow" victory seeing as how they are the second most valuable company in Japan behind Toyota now thanks to the Wii (and DS). I really don't think they are in the least bit worried about 3rd party support with the truckloads of yen they are making due to their victory. |
Several devs and publishers jumped on board last year after they realized that the Wii was seemingly a runaway success. It takes time for them to make quality titles. As I've mentioned before, there was an article from GameSpot.com last year that Square-Enix, Sega, and Capcom were dropping a lot of PS3 support to direct more attention to the Wii and DS. That announcement came around summer of 2007, as I recall. Those games won't be coming out until later this year at the soonest.
The same goes for a lot of companies. The Wii started getting a lot of support after it launched, so the games weren't being built ahead of time like they were for the PS3 and Xbox360. Many of the Wii's supporters early on weren't even working on Wii hardware--they were working off GameCube hardware with Wiimotes. All of that has changed and there are more companies working with Nintendo on the Wii now than when it launched, and they're all using actual Wii hardware dev kits this time.
It took the DS about a year and a half to hit it's stride and had many of the same struggles early on--too much shovelware, too few apparent 3rd party supporters, and the like. But now, it's the top selling system with no slow-down at all in it's sales. It's momentum is immense. The flood of higher quality, exlcusive titles continues to grow. The Wii should start hitting it's stride--if it continues following in a similar path to the DS--around the holidays this year. More and more stuff is being announced all the time now. We just had Tenchu 4, Spyborgs, Mad World, Star Wars Clone Wars, Rune Factory, Sim City, and a few others all revealed in just the last couple weeks. All of them being built from the ground-up exclusive for the Wii (Clone Wars also DS so far, of course).
