Wii and the third-party "doom"

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alpha_dk said:

windbane said:

*bleu-ocelot* said:

NJ5 said:

I wonder how the industry would be like without MS's/Sony's payments to third parties. Would they be able to develop the games they're developing, and survive?

A lot of companies making HD games are subsidized by those companies' pockets, of that I'm sure.

 

 

Yeah right.Those out of pocket purchases account for a minority of the 3rd party support,that the 360/PS3 receive.Third party developers choose the PS3/360 as their platforms of choice because it's the ideal platforms for their games and audience.Not knocking the wii,but a majority of the third party support will continue to go to the 360/PS3 regardless of how well the wii does.imo

I agree with this entirely.

Are either of you willing to take a bet about this?  Say, use of Avatar/sig for a while, or something else?

Terms of bet if either of you are willing:

  I say that the # of Third Party Wii games announced at E3 will be greater than PS3/360 combined (PS3/360 multiplats only get counted once, not twice) (any games that come to Wii in addition to one or both of the PS3/360 games can either not be added to any, or be added to both; it is a net null gain).  If either of you two are willing to take that bet, then please tell me what you would like to bet.

 

Who doesn't expect a lot of casual crap to be announced for the Wii?  If Ubisoft announced 13 games for the Wii and all except two are budget crap and has 7 games for the 360/PS3 but they're all quality games does that mean the Wii has won with that company when it comes to third party support?  That is what blue-ocelot is talking about when he mentions the majority of third party support .  For those who claim that quality is subjective, I agree. but it's pretty obvious what we're talking about when it comes to quality and ridiculous to pretend that it's difficult to tell the difference.