Wii and 3rd Parties

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Originally Posted by gekko

I remember a time when Nintendo fans complained about not having enough 3rd party support. Look at all those games!

That is the simplest of arguments and I know you are just being you, but there is a difference between getting no games and getting games of no merit/effort.

I mean in no way is Nintendo innocent in any of this, I didn't follow video games back then, but I heard they were horrible to work with during the NES/SNES days. The n64 days they created the ever charming, "Dream Team"

But here's where the problems started coming in, the Gamecube launched, and it had a ton of technical limitations (Smaller memory cards, fewer buttons), but 3rd parties and even gamers started talking about how only "kiddy" games sold on Nintendo consoles. Which I think is a bit flawed because Acclaim was able to keep Turok exclusive on the n64, Goldeneye is still beloved, Perfect Dark, WWE/WCW games and the likes.

And then the Wii came around, and there was talk that the only games that sell are casual games, ignoring the success of such things as RE 4, Red Steel, No More Heroes, Force Unleashed, Umbrella Chronicles, House of the Dead, etc etc.

And somewhere in between those two extremes, the notion that Nintendo consoles only sell games made by Nintendo, which is hard to disprove, I mean Nintendo has bar none the best (if not second best maybe Valve/Blizzard before them) track record in the industry.