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Originally Posted by Bond
I don't think it's quite like that. Nintendo doesn't support their third party developers well, both Sony and Microsoft do a better job of support. I personally believe the source of this issue is that Microsoft and Sony of America are managed by Americans, whereas Nintendo of America is still managed by the Japanese. It's clear the American and Japanese market are extremely different, and the Japanese don't understand how business works in America. The reverse could also be said. Also, I'm sure at least a sizable portion of the development community want to work on the more technologically advanced system, which is clearly not the Wii. Although the Wii is selling well, only the console itself and a few other games are selling well. Whereas, the Xbox 360's third party games are selling like hotcakes, and are being supported by Microsoft. The choice is fairly clear for a third party developer that is looking to invest time in a quality title and turn a profit.
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I don't buy most of this.
I will agree on wanting to work on better hardware point.
I just think developers and publishers were all caught off guard by the Wii's success. I mean most people assumed it was a joke and wouldn't be around much. So now that it is selling like hotcakes everyone wanted to join the band as quickly as possible so we ended up with:
1) Complete and utter crap which is probably best suited for PC shovelware or to never be seen.
2) Developers assuming that button= waggle works. The Wii is at its best when you are doing stuff that probably wouldn't be as immersive as a single button press.
Beat'em ups are a good example where they just have you waving the controller to do attacks. It doesn't correlate to anything except a new form of button mashing. Compared to Medal of Honor Heroes 2 use for the sniper and rocket launcher, which add and personally destroys those weapons in other games.
3) Ports ports ports. The Cube did not have the biggest library of games so Nintendo owners know they missed out on stuff, but that isn't what we are getting ports of. We get ports of PSP and PS2 games that were long forgotten anyhow and for damn good reason.
And personally, I think a lot of people prefer to spend time on the games that the Wii hamper. Listen to shows like 1up yours where they will spend minutes mocking Gingerbread man but never really discuss Zack and Wiki or even a game like the Godfather which is one of the few ports that waggle helped improve.
Anyhow, in the New Year with a lot more quality games down its pipe, I think developers are going to need to step up to steal some of the spotlight.
Personally, I think they will continue to release crap. Have it sell poorly because it sucks and then use it to support their notion that 3rd party games don't sell well on the Wii so they don't need to put effort into it. Its a sad sad cycle.