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They are generally afraid to compete with Nintendo.



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Derek said:
The only third party games that turn profits (for the most part) are mini-game compilations, or something with a Mario cameo.

More expensive, "artistic", and arguably "better" games cost more money to make, and have been barely breaking even. See: Madworld, No More Heroes. Exception: anything with Resident Evil in the title.

Until Wii owners start buying these games, I wouldn't expect things to change.

Madworld and No More Heroes were not expensive games.



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Two main reasons regarding Wii

1) Many developers either do not understand or simply don't relate to the Wii audience. For many working on Wii is working outside of their comfort zone.

2) Most of the industry is inbred. People who grew up playing games and now want to make those same games but bigger, better, badder. They want to make graphically beautiful games with lots of violence and that works and sells best on HD consoles. They do not want to make Petz, Imaginez, Brain Ages, Sport Active or other such titles.



 

theRepublic said:
They are generally afraid to compete with Nintendo.

 

They didn´t seem to be in the NES and SNES generations.



JGarret said:
theRepublic said:
They are generally afraid to compete with Nintendo.

 

They didn´t seem to be in the NES and SNES generations.

 

Indeed.



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Wii audience is unpredictable in term of buying intention outside of very casual titles and Nintendo titles...

Heck I'm not the one saying it, Iwata called the casual Wii customers 'fickle'...........



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

It's not an excuse. They literally have to make an entirely different game for the Wii. In doing that it's a lot more than say porting it between PS3, 360, and PC which can all be worked on as "one". Thus they have to weigh in the risks of putting such and such game on the Wii and whether or not it will contribute greatly enough to overall profit and revenue.

However, they also have to consider whether or not if they do a Wii version to not make it cheap and bad as that will ruin the property's name on the Wii and their own developer name. So it's a difficult decision but you are starting to see a replacement for it. Instead of going full out on the PS360/PC option, they are putting more focus on Wii exclusive development more so than they probably have done for any console. Now all of these may not be games people necessarily want, although subjective, it's not as if they aren't developing for it.

This kind of treatment will probably continue throughout it's lifecycle but the exclusively developed games are getting much better and more varied as time progresses.



theRepublic said:
Derek said:
The only third party games that turn profits (for the most part) are mini-game compilations, or something with a Mario cameo.

More expensive, "artistic", and arguably "better" games cost more money to make, and have been barely breaking even. See: Madworld, No More Heroes. Exception: anything with Resident Evil in the title.

Until Wii owners start buying these games, I wouldn't expect things to change.

Madworld and No More Heroes were not expensive games.

They were more expensive than Pets, Horsez, or *insert mini-game compilation here*.

 



Stop getting so excited about a Kid Icarus remake... the original NES Icarus sucked.

 

wfz said:
They can't compete with Nintendo's own products.

QFT

DrYon said:
radha said:
all i can say is, they are businesses and they want money, if they are not making wii games is because there is no money for them there, is stupid to think that is because game companies are fanboys, so stop trying to defend nintendo, devs must be right developing for wii must mean a lost for them.

LOL. Coming from a guy with a sain written PlayStation 3 is the future.

 

 

 

so that makes my comment illogical or untrue?



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