Major 3rd parties hate Nintendo platforms.... - Wii, WiiWare & Virtual Console Forum

prairie_wind101 · 2010-02-17T01:20:19+00:00

Of course that has been apparent form day one on Wii. But look now, at the DS - look how few big name companies get behind massive games on DS - where? Heck, even Street Fighter goes to i-phone.....really? I realize you cannot do a direct port, but i-phone? Touch screen fighting stick? Are you kidding me? And look at motion plus - lots of support there. At launch Wii got a couple of no brainer sequels to existing games with motion plus support. Wow. And look how successful Wii Resort is - not that major 3rd parties care. They did not even try. Won't it be funny is 3rd parties get behind Natal and Arc with major games? Lol. Nintendo is hated. This 'casual' stuff is nonsense. 'Casual' could just as well mean 'stupid' as far as major 3rd parties are concerned. They have put next to no effort into Wii or DS, not really. Very little truly ambitious or grand scale. And they have the gall to play the 'failure' card? Not to say third party support is 'bad' - there are a lot of medium sized games that are niched fillers and quite good... But the continued success of WIi and DS rests on Nintendo. They have next to no help with the blockbuster titles that drive systems. I hope they keep the system moving games coming - very interested to see the Nintendo media summit. Is it not hypocritical that IGN is 'hyped' when they think Nintendo is lazy? Lol. But media hype only means one thing for Nintendo - Zelda footage. Other than Mario Galaxy, and Super Smash, Zelda is the only Media Sweetheart Nintendo has. Nintendo is becoming an island unto them selves - they cannot do anything about it, except be exceptional and exclusive.

Topic: Major 3rd parties hate Nintendo platforms....

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Adam
Wed 17th Feb 2010

Howdy, Eugene.

Come on, friends,
To the bear arcades again.

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retired_account
Wed 17th Feb 2010

_{I'm lol'ing IRL.}

Ahem, on topic. Most of the games I own on Wii are third party, and my favorites are about half first party and half third.

EA's doing a great job supporting Wii, I think. They built Grand Slam Tennis for it from the ground up, they gave us MySims Agents (which is a hella fun game, btw), they're making a SEQUEL to NBA Jam - I mean, how cool is that? Oh, and don't forget about WiiWare; there are countless masterpieces to be found there. Honestly, I can't even keep up with the amount of great Wii games out there, so no complaints from me.

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Hawker
Wed 17th Feb 2010

prairie_wind101 wrote:

I guess after NSMBWii flopped, they got cold feet and scrapped the Blue Case at Retail.

Maybe my memory is bad, but I recall reading that NSMBWii sold almost as many copies as Modern Warfare 2 did across all systems. How is that a flop? 1 game on 1 system sold almost as well as 1 game on 3 systems (Xbox, ps3, pc) I see that as a success, not a flop.

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retired_account
Wed 17th Feb 2010

Woah, he actually said NSMBWii flopped? Heh, I've heard better jokes.

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Adam
Wed 17th Feb 2010

Me too, Pix. Such as: Why did the chicken cross the road? To ban the proxy on the other side.

Come on, friends,
To the bear arcades again.

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cheetahman91
Wed 17th Feb 2010

I like Adam's joke better. You really need to try harder Mr. Wrayburn.

[Edited Wed 17th Feb 2010 by cheetahman91]

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theblackdragon
Wed 17th Feb 2010

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