Wii is scaring off third party developers

[Momma Bear]

Everyone knows the Wii is selling like hot cakes, you'd be hard pressed to find a Wii anywhere but Nintendo is once again having trouble with third party developers. Many of the games and certainly most of the top sellers on the Wii come from Nintendo itself which could be bad, in the long run.





[Only registered users can see links. ] talks about a hypothetical situation which could easily become reality. It boils down to what all the people that have bought a Wii are actually doing with it.
Are they playing it and continuing to play with it or are they playing it until they get bored with it and graduate to a console that actually has more good games from more third parties, say, a Xbox 360 for instance (or PS3 but let's be honest, there is only one or two good games on the PS3).


One line of the article grabbed my attention, in particular, "Sorry to say, graphics still matter, and because the Wii is lacking, some walk into a room, play with it for an hour, tell everyone how fun it is, and go back to their PS3 to marvel at the look of a game." If only the PS3 had more than two good titles that would have been an apt example.


The possibility that people are buying Wiis and playing them for a short period and then forgetting just what that little white box did in the first place is scaring off several (but unnamed) third party developers.


This exact same thing happened with the N64 as well as the GameCube and if Nintendo can't get the third parties onboard, at some point, the Wii may end up becoming the next GameCube, I know, GameWhat?



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