[QUOTE="Arach666"][QUOTE="mystervj"] Sales doesn't reflect quality, the thread is about line up. How is Wii's sales has anything to do with it sucking? I don't see a first party AAA on this list.mystervj
If it sucked so much,people would be buying it,now wouldn´t they? If ppl are buying them, why does it lack third party support? Surely such overwhelming success would garner more attention to the platform?That's because 3rd party really really shot themsevles in the foot this gen. Well, some of the reasons I really can't blame them because at the start of this gen, everybody was betting on MS and Sony, and just about everyone cept diehard sheep held out hope that Nintendo will be successful. Most 3rd party except Ubisoft is like going, "Bleh, Nintendo, this gen, they're done". And put something liek 70-90% of their focus on the HD twins instead.
So Nintendo blew out of the left door and took everyone by surprise. So now, 3rd party are like "Looking at the Nintendo table, with basically only Nintendo choming down on the quarterhouse steaks, cheesecakes and Dom Perignon champians while they look at their table...and see only scraps." And with the high development cost of HD development, especially PS3 initially, Companies were screaming murder! And since it takes two years min. to develop a good game, most thrid party are shut out of the Wii running in the begining, and so they shoved their C and D teams to create something fast to catch the Wii freght train. WEll, it worked out, to some degree, So 3rd party had this mentallity of "on the Wii, D class effort will bring A class results". And with development time so long, they kept on shoveling ports, D class efforts like Carnival Games, and worse, shovelware on the Wii to see which sticks while they play catch up. And guess what? Consumers ain't stupid. after awhile, they got tired of this bruhaha, and stopped buying a lot of 3rd party offers, except some jewels like EA workout, and Rayman etc. Otherwise, 3rd party basically shot themsevles in the foot. Look at the 3rd party lineup on the Wii, just how many games are there that had the effort, money, and marketing put in as the HD twins games? None I can assure you! And the end result shows. And what the 3rd party do? Blame on EVeryone, especially Nintendo except themsevles. Don't believe me, on Neogaf, several game developers admited they will carry a HD game to the end, even if THEY knew it would bankrupt them and will not bother with the Wii! That's the type of mentality this gen...
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