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JTurner82 on 18 December 2009

A lot of people seem to think that the 3rd party publishers will ditch the Wii altogether next year.  While sales for this year haven't been particularly good, I doubt it's going to really happen.  Besides, the year hasn't even started yet.  Hearing that Nintendo is trying to rectify its problems does give some hope, but I think we'll probably have a lot of small IP titles, unless they decide to announce a KH 3 for Wii (if it does happen), or if there will be any DQ ports (maybe).  The latter could be a very good way to boost the audience's awareness for DQX, and may help the Wii's situation in Japan drastically.

 

I'm just trying to bring something less negative and doomsaying to this forum.



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Demotruk on 18 December 2009

It's a matter of when third parties will begin to support the Wii in a significant way. It looks to me like the major third party publishers are not going to commit in a serious way to the Wii so long as they are not forced to. They see it as in their interests to support the HD consoles above the Wii, and in some sense it is.



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BoneArk on 18 December 2009

My first two purchases of 2010 are going to be 3rd party games, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Ubisoft/Grasshopper) and Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (Capcom). Can't wait. :)



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

SaviorX on 18 December 2009

I don't want to go into a list wars, but yea there is some support.
Sega, Ubisoft, and Capcom have some good to great stuff planned. The rest from Destineer, 505 Games, and Southpeak Interactive are shovelware.

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bmmb1 on 18 December 2009

I don't think 2010 is going to be much of a problem. If anything, 2011 might be though.



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griffinA on 18 December 2009

I'd say 85% of the games I'm buying next year will be Third-Party.



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patjuan32 on 18 December 2009
Soriku said:
I think on the Japan side support may be getting weaker but the plus for us is that we haven't gotten those games released in Japan like Fragile, MH3, ARF, ToG, whatever so really it shouldn't affect us on this side much.

But either way I'd expect another Tales game, some more DQ games (DQ VII remake? DQ Swords 2?) and blah blah. We just might not be getting much new from Japanese devs who've barely supported the Wii in the first place so I don't think anything new is really happening.

Of course this is ignoring the whole Western side which includes games like the Grinder, Epic Mickey, Red Steel 2...

Any doom saying is just ignorance.

Excluding Capcom, Japanese developers/publishers have not been putting a lot of support behind any home console.



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trestres on 18 December 2009

There's no more 3rd party support for the Wii in Japan in comparison to what the HD consoles are getting in 2010, that's a fact. In the West, we are actually getting a lof of the games we never got from Japan, so it will be a good year, but the problem lies in Japan, I think devs already made up their mind.



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TopCat on 18 December 2009

Fragile, Arc Rise Fantasia, Tales Of Graces, NMH2. TvC, Red Steel 2, LOTR: Aragorn's Quest, Lego Harry Potter, New Call Of Duty, Epic Mickey, Sky Crawlers, Calling, Monster Hunter 3, Gladiator AD, The Grinder and many more... Plus Ninty's games = awesome year for the Wii




SaviorX on 18 December 2009
trestres said:
There's no more 3rd party support for the Wii in Japan in comparison to what the HD consoles are getting in 2010, that's a fact. In the West, we are actually getting a lof of the games we never got from Japan, so it will be a good year, but the problem lies in Japan, I think devs already made up their mind.

Well, at least Atlus is bringing Trauma Team, Spike is releasing Madworld in February, um... let me research real quick

 

*couple minutes pass*

I got nothing.  There was a thread yesterday I posted in that had a couple games listed. Things will be announced. FFS the Wii has 62% marketshare over there.........



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