Grey Acumen said:
I'm not commenting on the games, I'm commenting on the attitude that 3rd party developers have about how the games are received as well as the attitude surrounding the production of those games. I LIKE quite a few of the good 3rd party games, but even I have to admit that 3rd party developers are failing in either game quality, or advertizing quality. The best 3rd party games I can think of are No More Heroes, Zack & Wiki, Okami, and RE4 Wii. 2 of them are ports, and 3 of them haven't had nearly the sales they could have, and I can easily identify 90% of that being due to lack of advertising. Guitar Hero has been selling well, but doesn't support the online and they even tried to claim it couldn't be done. Hopefully Rock Band will take care of that misconception. There's just generally a very poor attitude that 3rd party developers have towards Wii owners, and it can be summed up simply that they think Wii owners don't have any standards of quality. The problem with that assesment is that newer gamers that own a Wii do have standard of quality, BUT they have a very poor understanding of the market due to their own inexperience. However more experienced gamers that own a Wii have VERY HIGH standards of quality. If 3rd party developers took the effort to teach the newer gamers how to recognize teh quality that they put into their games, instead of just ignoring the quality entirely, they'd have games that sold incredibly well. |
