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Words Of Wisdom on 17 January 2008
fkusumot said:

Words Of Wisdom said:
Think about this.

Imagine it happened. Imagine that Nintendo did have to almost single-handedly support the Wii with its games. This would cement the image that "Only Nintendo games sell on Nintendo consoles." Do you understand how painful that stigma would be not only this generation but in the following ones? Even with the highest selling console of the bunch, 3rd parties choosing not to support a Nintendo console means that they wouldn't even support it at its best.

This is all hypothetical, but this stigma is a very real possibility that Nintendo very much needs to avoid.

But... the support is going to eventually follow much like it did with the DS. The struggle is centered around Japan where home console gaming has been contracting and the third party developers there are struggling in the home market. I'm sure the western developers are going to figure out how to put one and one together and come out with "ii" soon.


Logically support should follow sales however sales need to follow support as well.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 17 January 2008

As long as they could produce games like Wii sports Wii plat and Wii fit, then yes



 

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thekitchensink on 17 January 2008
BornFirst. said:
But as i said earlier, wasn't it Nintendo who pioneered the DS's success the first 2 years of its life? look at the DS now. It seems the Wii seems to be following the DS's success, wii sports is the Nintendogs for the Wii, wii fit is the Brain age of the Wii.

No, Big Brain Academy is



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nudj on 17 January 2008

Well, total Wii software is comfortably outselling PS3 and X360. People need to be precise. 3rd party CASUAL games ARE selling. On GC this wasn't true. So yes, I think Nintendo software + 3rd party casual+ profitable hardware is enough. Maybe not PS2 level success but who realistically expected that?



Avinash_Tyagi on 17 January 2008
nudj said:
Well, total Wii software is comfortably outselling PS3 and X360. People need to be precise. 3rd party CASUAL games ARE selling. On GC this wasn't true. So yes, I think Nintendo software + 3rd party casual+ profitable hardware is enough. Maybe not PS2 level success but who realistically expected that?

 Oh they can easily surpass PS2 level success at their current rate



 

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Supa_Gama on 17 January 2008

If Nintendo and 3rd parties can come up with more casual games I think the Wii can last for very long time because those game are not about graphic. I think it will reach 100m but not sure if it will ever catch up to the PS2 though.



cdemakis23 on 17 January 2008

In my opinion Nintendo would be able to do be successful with little support. I say this because Nintendo games are virtually the reason why people purchase their hardware. Also Nintendo titles are consistent which would maintain their hardware sales. But its always better to have third party support so that can expand their user base and keep good relationships with the companies just in case they ever need them (Gamecube era). But if Nintendo really wanted to they would be able to accomplish major success on there own, however hardware sales would be slightly lower but still profitable.

People dont say lets buy a Wii for Sonic, or Raymen but instead buy the hardware for Wii Play, Mario, Zelda.



Final-Fan on 17 January 2008
Dodece said:
Nintendo could quite literally sell this console with absolutely no games of quality.
No, that was Sony and the PS3.  Don't you remember? 

 



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Ishy on 17 January 2008

they could do it... but it isn't advisable... they should b trying really hard 2 get QUALITY 3rd parties developing games 4 the Wii ( note my emphasis on the word quality)



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joora on 17 January 2008

I guess they could easily buy studios which specialize in games they need to get more audience.

I guess that they could even demand certain level of quality from 3rd parties games, so there would be less shovelware on wii, and more effort from 3rd parties.



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