Nintendo of America's beefburger boss Reggie Fils-Aime has claimed that third parties don't "get" the Wii, and that is why there is a lot of rubbish on the console.
"I will be able to say our licensees 'get it' when their very best content is on our platform," explained the savory executive after admitting that third party support is not known for its quality. "And with very few exceptions today, that's not the case."
I find myself disagreeing with the gravy-blooded boss on this count. I think third parties "get" the Wii completely. They "get" that you can put shovelware crap on the platform, fill it with useless waggle, and sell a bunch of copies to retards and the terminally ignorant. I'd say they "get it" completely.
If anyone's failing at the Wii, it's Sega and Capcom. Putting good third party games on a system? They're doing it wrong!
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8:33 AM on 11.19.2008
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With that said, all of the excitement that I formerly had with the Wii has dwindled into nothing now that my beloved Animal Crossing is a crap rehash on the Wii and there is absolutely nothing else this year. This former Nintendo fan is starting to really despise Nintendo.
Jim Sterling, what is the point of your post? I don't "get it".
The sad thing is, that like McDonald's, the public is gobbling it up.
A criticism of the majority of third parties. Not the Wii.
You are like, the opposite of clever.
The Wii is a joke. To me, its biggest problem is everyone and their mother thinks a game on the system must include waggle. They don't. Traditional games can be made for a non traditional system. It can be done, it just isn't.
As much as the Wii is, Nintendo itself is not a joke just yet, only because they have the DS. Thats where the good games go.
Now I'll sit back and laugh as the fanboys get personal, go crazy, and start listing games for the Wii. D-Toid at work provides me with more entertainment than I should be allowed to have :D
Why would it be "crazy" or make someone a "fanboy" to use material examples to refute your point? In any case, I don't really get the constant Wii complaining. The vast majority of people here are multi-console owners and probably a PC to boot. There are good Wii games, quite a few actually. They're pretty different than good PC, PS3, 360 games. This is a GOOD thing. Unless of course your the kind of kid who says "I am a hardcore gamer!" when what you mean is "I am a hardcore testosterone addict and if my media isn't dripping with macho, musclebound violence its crap!"
Maybe they need time to learn how to program with the Wii?
You can list Wii games all day long if you want, it still doesn't change my opinion. Its not refutable fact I have here, its an opinion. Take it or leave it. You like your Wii? Cool. Thats your opinion, and I accept it.
Now it's time to shift resources away from 360/PS3/PC development and put them on the Wii.
The Wii is the new PS2 - The console for everyone.
Developers need only look at Super Mario Galaxy - A game that blows most 360/PS3 games out of the wear graphically and gameplay wise.
The Wii is the market leader, the savior of the gaming industry, get off your 360/PS3/PC high-horse and support he market leader.
The Wii will continue and inevitably the 360/PS3 will vanish into oblivion.
If GTA/Halo/Black/Forza/Riddick/Doom 3/Half-Life 2 could be done on the Xbox, then there's no excuse that the Wii can't handle great games.
PS2 games like Okami, God of War, Shadow of the Colossi, ICO, Resident Evil 4, Gran Turismo 4 and MGS3 stomped all over the shader heavy Xbox One.
Developers are unwilling to innovate like Nintendo and instead just churn out shinier versions of lastgen games with bigger textures.
Look at Call of Duty, GTA IV, Bioshock, Halo, Fable and MGS4, Resident Evil 5 - They'll all just shinier versions of their lastgen counterparts.
Now look at Super Mario Galaxy - An beautiful, innovative game like no other game before it.
Publishers will have to support Nintendo or sink on the PS3/360/PC.
The recession is going to destroy the PS3/360/PC ship with only the Wii above water.
Third parties have been dragging their ass save for a few like Grasshopper Manufacture (Suda 51), Hudson, Konami and Capcom except for that debacle with Dead Rising Wii. EA has been back and forth between putting out solid games and putting out crap. The rest? They haven't even bothered to show their damn face at the door.
Bam!!! A Nintendo Wii game is the 2nd highest rated game following the over-hyped technical debacle that is GTA IV.
OF course, true gamers know that Super Mario Galaxy is a better game than GTA IV, Nintendo still wins.
So much for all that power that the 360 and PS3 possess.
Super Mario Galaxy is proof that Wii games are better than the overhped drek that PS3/360 developers can come up with.
Oh year, Super Mario Galaxy will age much better than GTA IV due to the art direction taken.
HAHAHAHA
Really? Name one game like Super Mario Galaxy? What other game can give me the same experience?
What game other than Galaxy do you have planets with individual gravity, awesome 2D segments interlaced with 3D segments, et cetera?
In my own opinion, there is a few games that made me buy a Wii, most of them made by Nintendo (or 2nd parties). The control scheme is great but has not been implemented correctly in software and that what disappoints gamers and it seems even Nintendo.
This is what Nintendo gets for making the Wii so under-powered. Developers who want their games to look as good as they possibly can don't want to develop for the Wii.
You can't have it both ways.
If they make shovelware crap it's because the number of people buying them compared to the people buying good stuff is bigger.
Not to mention Wiiware games that own, but receive little attention.
If these games turn out as I hope they will, I'll be set for next year;
Sin and Punishment 2
Mad World
The Conduit
Punch Out!!!!
Demon Blade
Little King Story
House of the Dead
That's a year's worth of games that I probably will love but never have time to finish or pay for. WHY WOULD I WANT MORE??? NOt even mentioning Wiiware and DS cause my brain would explode.
By the way, Left 4 Dead is amazing.
Yeah, Wii owners don't care about 3rd party games, that must explain why
-Guitar Hero 3 has sold over 3 million copies on the Wii and is the best selling version of the game
That must also explain why
-Resident Evil 4
-Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
-MySims
-Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
-Red Steel
Have sold over a million copies
Tiger Woods
FIFA
Madden
also sell well on the Wii
Yeah, I guess Wii gamers don't care about 3rd parties.
Why don't you do some research before you post? You'd make yourself look like less of a fool.
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If the Wii outsells both the PS3/360 install base combined than 3rd Party's would be leaving massive amounts of money on the table if they continue to ignore the Wii. Which 3rd Party's don't walk away from money for nothing so they'll jump ship to the most install base platform in a heartbeat. They won't care how less powerful the Wii is as long as its making them the most money!
Nintendo shouldn't being complaining, Nintendo should be laying down the law.
Nintendo unless you do something to raise your standing in my eyes, my current dislike of you may turn to indifference, and then you will have lost a customer.
Red Steel can be used as a positive for the Wii. The Wii kept that thing from going to the 360/PS3/PC. Thank you Wii!
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/redsteel
Two medias rank it over 90/100, 4 medias rank it over 80/100. So I think wii can use it as a positive. It has it flaws, but I love the controls. Conservative pad wankers might not, but over million people can't be wrong. Well alright, they can but I am not.
I'm not saying that all Wii games look like shit, but they are not up to par with anything else. They look last-gen. Nintendo needs to realize this. They fucked themselves when they designed the Wii the way that they did.
It's fine an' all to say bring back the Ninty Seal O Quality and the five game limit but then you run the risk of doing the stupid bullshit that went down for Sony and Sega in the 90's via Bernie Stolar.
As it stands, the Wii is about to outsell the PS3/360 combined this holiday seaon.
Microsoft's and Sony's problem is that their machines are too expensive and too complicated for the mass market. They basically only appeal to introverted geeks still living in their parents' basement.
The Wii, like the PS2 and PS1, is the Everyman console. Games from E to M, 8 to 80.
The Wii Motion and Pointer Consoles totally destroy the 360/PS3 outdated Dual-Analog controls.
The 360/PS3 only offer lastgen gameplay with a shiny coat of paint. Developers on the platform are creatively bankrupt and can only muster to crank out the same old RPGs/FPSs/Racing games that we have seen since the PS1.
The Wii is not for lazy developers. It a console for the talented and creative.
The Wii is the mass-market console, the 360 and PS3 neither are nor ever will be.
Play BioShock and tell me that 360/PS3 developers are creatively bankrupt. Ever heard of Little Big Planet? What about Mass Effect?
Yeah, thought so.
Those three alone have better story, graphics, and innovation than the Wii could ever hope to have.
"It is a console for the talented and creative."
We Cheer is the most creative game I've every played, and I'm shocked that Carnival Games: Mini-Golf isn't in the GOTY talks. What a shame.
Dual-Analog controls aren't outdated. Motion control has been out for one fucking console generation. When I start to play ALL my consoles with motion control, then you might have a case, but until then I' afraid you're wrong.
And your exactly right, Wii is the mass market console, which is why it gets so much crap dumped on it that it's ridiculous. People will buy anything if it has motion controls. Get real, do you really think people are buying Boogie for it's epic narrative? NO. Motion controls are a fucking gimmick, plain and simple.
I'd rather have RPGs, FPSs, and Racing games that are any GOOD rather than the same gimmicky games over and over. You'd figure with Wii developers being so "creative" that we might see more good games out for the Wii, instead of the mass-produced shit that infests the console.
And if the 360/PS3 are too complicated for the mass market, then holy fucking shit we're in trouble.