My point is that whining like this is just silly and it happens far too often. The small amount of the Wii, DS or 3DS audience that cares about games like Oblivion, Battlefield, Gears of War and such are insubstantiale to all the big players in this whole scenario. That small audience is a result of a bunch of bad or good business decisions and pointing fingers and whining isn't going to change that, the only hand that can make a change is Nintendos and they don't seem to care or they don't seem to have the ability to make any serious changes this late into the generation.

These are also products, you aren't entitled to anything at all, the only power you have is that you can choose which console to buy and then everything after that is up in the air. Maybe if there was 5 million upset Wii gamers, then maybe Nintendo would make a huge step of getting third party support, but obviously the audience that cares about games like The Last Story, No More Heroes and Madworld are small and so all the publishers are far more willing to sell games to the audience of 20 million that prefers to buy games like Carnival Games, Just Dance, Mario, Wii Whatever, Sports Active, Deca Sports and so on.

It'd be like a PS3 fan whining about why RTS games aren't coming to the PS3, but they go to every other platform, it's obviously because the RTS audience on the PS3 is small, the console doesn't have the right hardware to pull it off well enough and they are better off releasing another shooter, because they know they'll definently make money that way. Sure, they tried a couple of times, but it never worked out, no point in trying for the fifth time expecting a different result, especially when so much money and time is on the line.

Nintendo had a big hit this generation with Wii Sports, they then got excited and smart and decided to base their whole Wii approach around the Wii Sports concept and audience. The marketing was primarily aimed at a specific audience, the hardware was aimed at a specific audience and the games were aimed at a specific audience. Nintendo succeeded and grabbed the audience they wanted, the problem is that the other companies were marketing to the other audience and they grabbed all of them up.

When these two audiences cross paths, they rarely every connect. You don't see Cabela selling well on the PS3/360, you don't see dancing games selling well on the PS3/360, you don't see Ben 10 games selling well on the PS3/360, hell, it took a massive marketing campaign resembling a new console launch for the 360 to try and reach the casual market and that's now disappearing. My point is that Nintendo made the Wii and aimed it at a specific type of audience, Sony/Microsoft went for the other type of audience, they all tried swapping audiences three quarters into their life cycle and it didn't work out (Move, core Wii line-up, Kinect).

The fact is, the Wii is outselling the 360 every week, despite having far less games coming out. The audience that matters to Nintendo obviously don't care that a 'core' or what we would describe as  'good' games have been coming out. I'm sure they are all extremely happy with their Just Dances, Zumba Fitnesses, Wii Sports and Mario Karts and as long as the vast majority are happy, then the small minority in the Wii audience are going to be ignored. 

I went on a bit of a rant and I hope I made my point clear. The whining made sense two years ago, but it's far too late into this generation to hope for any substantial change. Nintendo are learning with the 3DS, they realise that they made a little mistake and now they are trying to appeal to both audiences simultaneously, while also pulling for third party support. It makes me hopeful for the Wii2.

You can ignore the post if you want, I kind of regret writing it up, but I've spent too much time on it and it'd be a waste if I just deleted it.

How has any of this have to do with MH3DS not being announced yet?   This is just People pissing on people the hole thread long..

Go make a thread about what your talking about for god sake

Well, back on topic...

I'm sad that Monster Hunter 3DS wasn't announced. But there is definitely still hope, and it's possible that Capcom would delay a multiplatform launch for the NGP and 3DS until early 2012. That would give them a fair amount of time. In that case, Capcom would likely announce in Japan later this month, and the localization at E3, maybe.

And let's face it...This current console generation is coming to an end. It's useless at this point to whine about the Wii's third party lineup. While the PS3 and 360 may be able to squeeze some more life out of their lineups, the Wii successor should be announced before 2012, and once it is announced, I'm sure that Microsoft and Sony will follow suit. I wouldn't be surprised if the new generation started in 2012.

And remember, everyone, Nintendo has a very good track record, so one little potential misstep with the 3DS launch isn't the end of the world. I'd expect a price drop for the 3DS once the NGP is released.

So basically Sony and MS are lying about the life of their current consoles in order to keep selling them? I believe it