Rainbird said:
Scoobes said:
Rainbird said:
Hmm... well, as long as they know what whent wrong, then there is something to work with. But I agree, the software has been lacking, though Nintendo is not the only ones to blame. A greater effort from 3rd parties could have made the problem smaller. The rest as they say, is history  |
I don't think Nintendo are completely blameless. By the sound of things they need to communicate better with 3rd parties to help them understand the Wii. It's been 3 yrs and 3rd parties are mostly failing to bring out anything inspiring to the console. Its like they need someone to give them a push in the right direction and say, "Hey, look, you can do this and you can be sucessful!". Nintendo can only do so much with 1st party material. Most people are confident that the next Zelda is going to be something special but they need games to fill in the gap and its not happening with only 1st-party games.
I do find it odd though that they say they've failed... high standards.
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I agree, I was merely pointing out that it wasn't all Nintendo's fault. But as you said, then 3rd parties don't get the audience and are not trying what should be tried, then Nintendo should have stepped in to try make the 3rd parties understand better.
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I disagree. Capcom has had success with the Resident Evil games on Nintendo systems. That company could have made another Resident Evil game. Instead of developing light gun games. They could also have released and updated Dino Crisis. There are a number of games they could have made to establish and nurture the core gamer like they are doing with the Xbox 360 and the PS3. But they did not.
EA could have made Dead Space Extraction a third person shooter instead of a light gun game but EA sees the Wii as a casual platform and nothing more. This is why the Wii has Madden All play and a Madden arcade game and a lackluster FiFa game, and their upcoming Need for Speed game is not a racing sim but an arcade game. The Wii also has Nascar Kart, My sims Kart, and instead of having a "The Sims game" the Wii gets my Sims. EA has done little to bring high profile titles to the Wii.
The IR pointer of the Wii makes it function like a mouse but there has been no RTS games from EA for the Wii. Instead they've focused on using dual analog controls of the HD consoles.
After the success of Red Steel, Ubisoft began to release broken and just plain bad games, like Driver: parallel lines and Far Cry Vengeance. Then they strated to release one Rayman Raving Rabbids game after another one. Oh lets not forget the Imagine series.
Nintendo does not have to help third parties to understand the Wii. They already do just look at the companies I mentioned above and you'll see that they have had success on the Wii when they have put in the effort to make good games and advertise them.
