Iwata: Third Parties Are Successful on Nintendo Platforms

The problem with the Wii (and Nintendo platforms in general) has always been that Nintendo dominates the system with its own software, leaving a much smaller piece of the market to be divided up amongst third party publishers. That said, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said in his recent financial presentation that third parties have and will continue to be successful on the Wii and DS.

He commented, "...in the U.S., the third parties titles sold more on Nintendo hardware than on any other platforms for two consecutive months. Some had pointed out in the past that few third party software were successful on Nintendo platforms. As of the end of March 2008, there were only twelve titles for Wii by third parties whose global unit sales from the launches exceeded one million, and this figure excluded titles from Nintendo and Pokemon Company. However, this number jumped to thirty at the end of December 2008.

"Likewise, at the end of March 2008, there were 28 third party DS titles which made the million-sellers list, but the number reached 49 titles at the end of December. As the hardware expand their installed bases, we are starting to see a cycle where more titles from the third parties are making the million sellers list."

In its financial presentation pdf, Nintendo revealed that 15 first-party titles had reached the million sold mark on DS, and 11 titles have done so on the Wii

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NINTENDO STRIKE BACK at the gaming audience....fanboys and so on

they finally put to rest a commonly held misconception

what you make of the story is upto you but the guy ahs some hard facts!

http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/iwata-third-parties-are-successful-on-nintendo-platforms/?biz=1

The whole concept that Nintendo's consoles are magically bad for 3rd party's was elephant dung to begin with.

^^This. Take a quality, well-known franchise like Guitar Hero or Star Wars, and guess what, your game sells!

Those are only the games which sold over 1 million in the last fiscal year, so the last 3 quarters. Lifetime there are a lot more already.

@thekitchensink

not only that but COD:WAW is showing tremendous legs compared to its poor launch!!

the only people clinging to that belief are the devs that make crappy games


and the trolls on the internetz

All he's doing is bragging about the success of the DS and using the DS as "Nintendo Hardware".

The Nintendo DS' ability to move 3rd party software has never been questioned.

This is just like Sony or it's fans thinking they did something good that one time the PS2 and PS3 combined outsold the Wii.

Read the article much?  18 third-party titles broke a million on Wii in 2008.

30 3rd party million sellers on wii by dec. 31st? vgchartz has it at 24, might have been less on dec 31st can't remember. It might be shipments, but we're probably missing a few anyway.

As I've pointed out in my first ever OP ;) This is an idea that Nintendo's competitors have fabricated, much like Sega did with labeling the SNES as the kiddy system. If third parties flock to the Wii the other competitors would undoubtedly falter, they want to keep this from happening at all costs.