Who makes the best games for Nintendo consoles? We both know the answer to that. If you want something done right, you do it yourself, right?
A whopping 27.5 million first-party games were sold for the Wii in 2009, totalling $1.53 billion in sales. That's 47 percent of all Wii sales for the year. Some of that may lead be related to a price difference: The average third-party game on sold for $37.85; the average first-party game sold for $55.63. Price it what it's worth? We won't get into that.
On the data, analyst Michael Pachter said: "The conclusion I draw from this is that the Wii audience is far more casual and harder to reach than the PS3 or 360 audiences, and they buy brand name software (with 'Wii' or 'Mario' in the title, or with a TV/product tie-in)."
Looking at my collection, it is varied, and I own more third-party games than first. Of course, I'm far from your typical Wii owner. If you're reading this, you are also in the same boat.
US: First-party titles accounted for 47% of Wii sales in 2009 [GI]
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9:00 AM on 01.28.2010
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Or, as Patcher said, is it just brand recognition?
Casual gamer burn FTW
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Nintendo does a couple of things right that most third-parties are still struggling with. First of all, it makes the kind of games most Wii owners want from classic franchises to casual games.Secondly, Nintendo has been one of the most consistent developers in terms of quality and balance of what titles they've offered. As far as first-party titles go (can't really say the same for second-party titles) is that Nintendo knows how to market its games well.
No, seriously. Until the casual buy only what is expected to buy it.
Little King's Story
Okami
Zacki/Wiki
Boom Blox 1/2
Muramasa, Klonoa, Boy and His Blob, Trauma Center, de Blob
There are millions of Wii owners out there that would enjoy playing these games, but have no idea they exist or any way of knowing they would enjoy them.
Packing in games, or a demo disc, or Nintendo points to every new console would have gone a long way to show nongamers what games they would enjoy.
You can't throw a new form of entertainment on people and expect them to figure out how to get the most out of it without any guidance.
Its, like, natural law or something...
Not complaining.
Just puttin' that out there.
There are some good third party games, but I am not willing to list them.
Nintendo really raised the bar when the made Super Mario galaxy and they completely blew away the late Game cube Developers when they made LOZ: Twilight princess.
but so far I have not seen one game that even comes close to Nintendo's technical excellence on the wii.
There are absolutely very little mini games in their wii games and they really don't push the user to have to use the motion controls, its crazy but they actually support the classic controller in their games.
Its not that the graphics in other games have not come close, but they really lack the polish and the skill that a pro team that Nintendo has working on most of their games to insure AAA quality out of even the dumbest games like Mario party.
There are great companies doing battle with Nintendo, like Capcom and Konami that have been around since Nintendo started in gaming and have released Kick a$$ games like Metal Gear, Castlevania, Megaman,lost planet, Resedent evil, nad all sorts of awesome NES games that I still enjoy playing.
However these companies just lack the effort that they had in 1985. They really worked hard to push the NES to it's farthest limits.
and right now I just cannot see them doing that right now, Gosh Dang it I want to see Game cube 2.5 graphics not Game cube 1.0 graphics!!!
I know the reason there are lack of quality titles on the wii is because gaming companies use it as training to make a 360 PS3 game and always send their "noob" teams to make the wii version or exclusive.
It would be cool if they would get their best teams actually working on a wii game.
I have yet to see a triple A title from ether of these companies and I know that Capcom vs Tosono is coming out but that game will only keep me busy for a month at best.
All of the other games are either crap, or things that the largest demographic doesn't care about. People were saying the Wii and the PS3/360 shouldn't be considered in competition...they were wrong at first, but are almost dead on now. The majority of the people who own a Wii wouldn't touch 99% of the others' libraries and vice versa.
I really miss those Demo Discs that came shipped with consoles.
I have a Wii and a 360 and none of them came with a demo disc. Dont know about PS3 though.
*looks at Konami's Walk It Out*
it might not. The marketing part, that's the big failure of all 3rd parties and they seem to be real adamant to do much about it, hell they don't even want to acknowledge it.
It's a toss up between Grasshopper Manufacture and Capcom.
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