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Wii has the most original IP, if you can call 20,000 minigames original photo

In what could be a job for Captain Obvious, a new Screen Digest report reveals that the Wii has more original IP than its competitors. According to the report, 40 games based on original IP are headed our way in the third quarter and of that number, over half will be Wii games.

The report theorizes that low development costs, motion-controls and the target audience are all factors for this slew of original content. That can be translated as this -- developers know they can sh*t out a half-baked, waggle-based sack of crap on a shoestring budget and a bunch of dribbling nincompoops will snap it up. I should be a market analyst.

The Wii apparently has expanded its original IP base -- to which Carnival Games and Escape From Bug Island belong -- to more than double that of the PlayStation 3. It also has a third more than the Xbox 360. Again, Carnival Games is part of that equation. The report also warned that the Wii could become the most competitive market this holiday season, as the library becomes congested and publishers compete for space.

Aah, good old market saturation. Good for any industry, and with no obvious side effects. Just ask Atari!


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Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 08/28/2008 09:02
Oh my goodness this is terrible.

funny though.

I'm so sick of minigames.
groebo's Avatar
groebo at 08/28/2008 09:08
is it sad that I goto the gamecube section for my wii to find real games now?
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Ratcliff at 08/28/2008 09:14
If you ask me, the Wii has taken games BACK a notch.

But if you have a neat device like the Wiimote, for some reason people find Darts to be fun again.
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Rifter01 at 08/28/2008 09:17
My g/f and I had a very similar discussion like this yesterday. In some way, I think the Wii is a little powerhouse, and has alot of potential...

Whether the potential is used by big N and developers or not is our main question.

*cough* Wi-Fi *cough* online gaming *cough* downloadables *achoo*. I must be getting a cold.
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dgschrei at 08/28/2008 09:30
@groebo

I had reached thaht point about half a year ago. This actually made me buy a 360 and sell my Wii to buy good games for the new console.
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killias2 at 08/28/2008 09:33
Another day and another article entirely devoted to Wii-bashing from Jim Sterling. Check!
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Jim Sterling at 08/28/2008 09:34
killias: As any fool can see from reading the article, I didn't bash the Wii once. I bashed the rubbish software that developers put on it. Maybe you should pay attention, son.
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Kathos at 08/28/2008 09:43
I had a 360 before the Wii, and after getting sick of the handful of good games on the Wii I bought a PS3, currently I'm playing my backlog of PS2 games, Warhawk and my 360 for varying titles while the Wii sits alone, in the living room, collecting cat hairs (my cat's shedding like a mo'fucka).
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Face at 08/28/2008 09:49
I like how you put a completely negative spin on this.
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DanGale at 08/28/2008 10:05
@Kathos

Why not play your back log of GC games if you're that stuck.
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killias2 at 08/28/2008 10:07
"As any fool can see from reading the article, I didn't bash the Wii once. I bashed the rubbish software that developers put on it. Maybe you should pay attention, son."

Haha, implying that all the original IP's are shitty mini-game collections a la Carnival Games isn't bashing the Wii? I'm sorry then. I must be taking my crazy pills again.
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JACK of No Trades at 08/28/2008 10:11
@killias2

The Wii sucks get over it.
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Jim Sterling at 08/28/2008 10:14
"Haha, implying that all the original IP's are shitty mini-game collections a la Carnival Games isn't bashing the Wii? I'm sorry then. I must be taking my crazy pills again."

You must be. I bashed the software, not the hardware. There is quite a difference.
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Felix Lighter at 08/28/2008 10:23
When will Wii shovelware over-saturate the Wii library to point that it individual garbage games are no longer profitable?

You'd think eventually their would be so much crap to choose from that each individual game wouldn't sell enough to return a profit no matter how low the development costs were. We obviously haven't hit that point yet unfortunately and 3rd parties still treat the Wii like a toilet.
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necrozen at 08/28/2008 10:40
@ killias2

What I think Jim is pointing out is that there COULD be good games on the Wii, but it seems no one is making them. I mean, some of the early games like Galaxy were awesome, but all of a sudden everything just vanished. And this, I think, is due to developers hopping on the money train and passing on crap minigames and PS2 ports. And people buy it and no one says a word.
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groebo at 08/28/2008 11:00
I finally realize the downfall of having a low system standard... The wii has become for the "jump to conclusions" idea market place... Its so easy to shit out a game that doesn't have to look that great... the potential that the wii had has been raped by shitty mini-games that are more annoying than exciting... The only people who are making remotely 'real' games for the wii seems to be nintendo themselves and even they aren't that great... every other whore just wants to jump on the bandwagon of "look at my crappy game... oh you don't like that game, who cares it comes with 50 others!!!"... If I couldn't play kart or re4 on it, I'd put the system in my cat's litter box for filler...
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B-Radicate at 08/28/2008 11:38
Even the "big" titles such as Galaxy and Zelda are trite and boring. Just because you add some waggle to Mario 64 doesn't mean it's the be all end all of gaming. The same goes for ports like RE4 and Okami, too.

The only wholly original IPs that have interested me on Wii were No More Heroes (which I never played because I heard it got kind of repetitive) and the upcoming Mad World I (which has to see the light of day to truly count). BoomBlox looks like fun, too, but it's not exactly a deep flowing narrative of any sort, so, yeah...
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mykie at 08/28/2008 11:47
Hey, Carnival Games is fun. I'll whup your ass in Alley Ball any day.
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thunderball at 08/28/2008 13:55
"The report theorizes that low development costs, motion-controls and the target audience are all factors for this dearth of original content."

Doesn't the report actually say that those things are responsible for the abundance of original content? Death, defined as a scarcity or lack of something, might more aptly describe the amount of original content for the Playstation 3. Also, you could have correctly made your point by referring to a dearth of creativity among developers of Wii minigame collections.

Also, if you're looking for something new, I might try this game out on your Wii:

http://www.gamespot.com/wii/puzzle/mywordcoach/index.html?tag=result;title;0
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Blind assassin at 08/28/2008 14:37
I can't help but notice that either dearth used incorrectly or you forgot to put "of quality" after it. The sentence says that they're is a lack of Wii games because developers are making them constantly.
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TrailerParkJesus at 08/28/2008 14:44
Original* IPs
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Jim Sterling at 08/28/2008 16:26
TrailerParkJesus:

if that's a correction, I point out that "original IP" (intellectual property) doesn't need an "s."

Also, I put dearth in wrong.
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