cory.ok said:
third parties fault? no lol. nintendo is the one who is supposed to lead on the wii, theyre supposed to take risks to show third parties that there is profit to be had on their console and when nintendo isnt supporting wii you can hardly expect third parties to support wii.
if nintendo wants third party development they should offer incentive to third parties. because they havnt offered as much incentive as their competition they dont have much third party support. the lack of third party support is because of nintendo, no one else.
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Nintendo has led on Wii, they're pretty much the only company on any home console whose software sales are great. And it's not just one or two examples, they have huge sellers in whole host of genres (platform, sports, fitness, racing, fighting, minigame, adventure, RPG, simulation, etc) and franchises (Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Wii ____, Wario, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros, etc). Nintendo's own Wii software has sold more in Japan than all the 3rd party software on PS3 and 360 combined... what does that tell you? What exactly are Sony and Microsoft doing to "lead" on their platforms software wise, that Nintendo isn't doing on Wii?
I'd agree Nintendo does need to do more to incentivize 3rd party support, but they were dealt a pretty rough hand this generation as is. 3rd parties had committed to HD before the machines were even on shelves, pretty much no one expected Nintendo to lead in sales (probably not even Nintendo themselves) and when consumers decided to buy Wii over PS360, 3rd parties took the conservative route and stayed the course with HD R&D over Wii. Thankfully, I think both Nintendo and 3rd parties have learned the lesson, and we're likely going to see a lot more effort from both sides when it comes to Wii 2. Like we are with 3DS (which has a significantly stronger 3rd party commitment upfront than DS did).
