You know who´s pissed right now?

3rd parties.

Because they cry, call Nintendo names, say they will never work with the big N again...

But deep inside they know they´re losing money... that almost 4mil new Wii were sold this christmas... and they dont have a single game to milk that cow.

How sad.

Man the wii is such a gimmick. It held a fan base for around 3 years and still has sales. Such a gimmick.

/s

I remember a few months back when Wii haters all came out of the woodwork to scream "LOL WII FAILED".

It's been going strong for three years...

when you consider the size of nintendo as a company compared to sony and microsoft, this is amazing everytime i see it.

This is exactly what ours looks like at work.

And yeah the word "gimmick" still applies because the attachment rate is low and average user-activity per month is even lower.

That's a weird definition of gimmick you have there nameless one.

I'm glad that there is an alternative to the "graphics are God" crowd, and I'm glad that the Wii is doing so well. Nintendo took a huge gamble, it payed off, and lots of gamers are butthurt because the industry is becoming more diverse, and they don't like it. None of those 3.81million consoles came home with me, but one will soon.

Wow, some people sure are jealous of Nintendo's success... and I'm not talking about Sony or Microsoft.

There are some good reasons why some third-party games have flopped. From picky gamers toor silly design choices, lazy developers and cheap publishers.

MadWorld is a good game but it's length was ridiculously short and it offered little to no replay value. Unfortunately, its unique visual style seemed to be quite a turn off to a lot of gamers.

No one wanted an on-rails FPS Dead Space game. As good as Dark Side Chronicles is, people have grown tired of the on-rails FPS with 3 horror on-rails FPS gamescoming out in 2009 alone. The Conduit bombed because it didn't live up to the hype. What game developed by a small Japanese game company like Marvelous or XSEEDs has managaed to have any of their games sell well on any of the three home consoles ? Do you really expect a game like Fragile Dreams to sell more than 300k copies world wide?

No More Heroes managed to sell quite well despite the fact that Ubisoft failed to market it. I bet the sequel will sell better even though it most likely won't have a tv commercial or any real marketing effort put forth by Ubisoft for its North American release later this month. Other games like de Blob managed to sell even better than No More Heroes.

It's unfortunate that there's a lot of good games but they happen to be niche so their sales are pretty much destined to be low such as Sin & Punishment 2, Muraamsa, A Boy & His Blob and Zack & Wiki to name a few.


Clearly, the Wii userbase is a picky and trick bunch of gamers so much of the blame falls on them as well. Nintendo games sell because Nintendo knows what its fan and expanded audience gamers mostly want and they generally due the best job of promoting their games when compared to any third-party Wii developer.


If Modern Warfare 2 were to have been built from the ground up for the Wii you can bet your ass that it would have sold over a million copies. The problem is Activision isn't willing to do that for reasons that are both understandable and silly. If I'm not mistkane, every Call of Duty game has sold over a million copies on the Wii and they've all practically been watered down ports.

it was a good month for all companies. it was in fact sony's best worldwide month ever for the ps3.

and i don't have a dam ds! i want one because my little nephew has phantom hourglass and aside from its control flaws, i love it! except when i have to blow or yell into the mic. but before this year is through, i should have one.

Still? God dammit.

I confess to buying a DSi but fucking Wii? Geez.

I really wish I was one of this PS3 statistics. Heavy Rain's release date is rolling up fast.

Anybody in Houston hiring? No seriously.

Sony must be mighty pissed about that PSP result. And the continue success of the Wii doesn't shock me - overprotective parents are on the rise, so the Wii console (as long as they don't buy MadWorld) will also rise. It's funny too because this generation of parents are meant to be more skeptical towards gimmicks that Nintendo dishes out in spades.

@Xzyliac

I take it you're not a Wii fan?

the power of the wii is you have to have one to know it's not that good, because everytime you go to a friend who has a wii it's fun to play together. So you go get one and discover that alone it's boring and you should have got something else.

I have friends that are happy with just playing Rockband and Mario stuff, they're happy with a game every 6 month...

i need a game every two week.

@L G Jargon

...Jersey shore reference. I am ashamed of myself for knowing that.

@The RPGist

Bullshit. If anything the Wii has started beating at the wall between "casual" and "hardcore" gaming. There is no solid definition of either term.

What difference does it make what kind of games a person likes?

The Wii has 73 million sellers, and 51 of them are from 3rd Party's. So why the hell are so many people saying that 3rd Party games don't sell on the Wii? It might not all be the games that want to be selling, but lots of games are still selling on the Wii either way. If the 3rd Party's want more sales on the Wii, than all they need to do is step up the support for it.

Start making some AAA games for the system and start marketing them as much as they do for the 360/PS3. The development cost on the Wii are cheaper, yet 3rd Party's still put even less money into Wii development, and marketing. I just don't get why? Sometimes I wonder if 3rd Party even really want to succeed on the Wii, because if they do, than why are they going about it the wrong way so much?

@Operative20: ...Really? You mean, from that stupid-ass show with all the jackass people who are comparable to human refuse and which the entire world would be wholly better without?....Jesus...To tell you the truth, that just came off the top of my head.

Brr-rr-rr-rr!...I'm shivering just thinking about those vain, knuckle-dragging, Neanderthal-like bastards...