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This is more of a poll than anything else.

We've seen many companies stir and move resources to the Wii, talk about Wii development, and so on. My question is -- which company is going to be so relentlessly amazed by the Wii's success, so totally disbelieving in the system's rise to prominence, that they simply won't move much (if any) resource to the system? 

Keep in mind, just to avoid flames, I am NOT suggesting that all third parties should move all their software to the Wii. The PS3 (Especially in Europe these recent weeks) and 360 (all around!) have proven themselves capable software movers and won't be ignored. But clearly, there is a gap in quality third party software on this generation's best selling console, and you just know some major company is simply refuses to believe the situation, and will make virtually no changes to their previously scheduled plan to shun the console entirely.

Any guesses who this will be? 



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Konami.

Eleibits, Dewey and yet another DDR game ain't gonna cut it.



"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks

Epic.



I was going to say Konami actually tried...but if they only put out games with kiddy images like Elebits and Dewey, both of which weren't really top-notch anyway...it is pretty sad.



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Definitely not Capcom. I think they are giving the Wii a damn good shot.



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Bungie :)



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Theres just not alot of independent studios anymore that can make that decsion. I would have said Bioware and Pandemic, but thats now EA so any EA game on the Wii counts as them contributing. Epic may hold out, maybe Free Radical. I would also have said Blizzard, but thats now Activision. So its probably slim to none because most big former independent studios are now part of huge publishers. Obviously any second party exclusive develpor to Microsoft or Sony wont like Bungie or Insomniac.



Midway- they may give support but their games just suck.



I think a lot of smaller companies such as Bioware, or even large ones like Blizzard that only produce one game every 2-3 years, aren't really "missing the Wii boat" if they don't happen to make a game for the Wii. Those are companies with a lot less flexibility than larger ones that produce a lot more games.

And that's really what I'm talking about here: Konami, Square, Capcom, Sega, EA, Activision, Ubisoft, among others. These companies produce tons of games, and I can fully imagine some of them shifting only the tiniest portion of funds over to the Wii, more as a "well, we tried" gesture than anything else.

Companies like Bioware may only produce 2 games this entire generation. If both of those games happen to be on the 360... well, I suppose that counts as "missing the boat," but it isn't really what I meant. That's a company with a lot less flexibility.  



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totalwar23 said:
Midway- they may give support but their games just suck.

This is very close to what I'm talking about. No large publisher is literally going to put ZERO games on the Wii, but one such as Midway may well put a small handful developers on just a few crappy games and say: "See? We made a Wii game. We tried, but the market didn't accept us." 

At least one of these big publishers is going to end up like this, and I think Midway is honestly the most likely candidate. That's the sort of thing I'm looking for, really.  

 



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