Developers worried about Wii's future! ...

I just got done reading this article,here is a little of what they had to say...Third-party developers, some said, had to cobble games together in an effort to quickly produce titles and keep up with Nintendo.

Other participants subscribed to the notion that Wii is a fad. ''The Wii is like the 'Billy's Boot Camp' weight-loss program on DVD,'' one unnamed president of a developer told Nikkei. ''People bought it out of curiosity, and it's likely a lot of them haven't used it''......this is getting rediculous.Its statements like this that can cause other developers to become hesitant in fully supporting the Wii with original content, thus continuing the ces pool of ported games with tacky motion controls slapped on to it...why is so much doubt being cast upon the Wii when there is so much potential inside the little box.What do u guys think...Developers worried about Wii's future! ...
Right now I don't care about what people say about the Wii because I already see 15 games in the first half of 2008 that I want. Not to mention about 7-8 games I want by the end of the year!Developers worried about Wii's future! ...
i read that not long ago, but the presidents of sony said the same thing round when the wii was first released and well look at it now. i read an article not that long ago that most devolopers will be making games for wii because it's the most popular and it's much cheaper to make games for then ps3 or 360
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[QUOTE=''spidermonkey11''] Right now I don't care about what people say about the Wii because I already see 15 games in the first half of 2008 that I want. Not to mention about 7-8 games I want by the end of the year![/QUOTE]exactly, there are more games coming out that i want to play than i have time for....also developers shouldn't worry as long as they actually try to make good games that wii owners will buy ;)
I don't think 3rd party developers are worried about the Wii's success. They are worried about their INVOLVEMENT in the Wii's success a.k.a. making money off the Wii. Over 11 million Wiis later in less than a year, and I say 99.9% percent of those sales had nothing to do with 3rd parties. What I mean is that people aren't buying Wiis for third party games, since the majority are not system sellers. Looking at this, some developers assume that the Wii will be nothing without them in the future--I sure can't tell. To sum all this up, third parties are mad because they are not getting a piece of the pie, because they were late to the game and are now playing catch up.
ya...it just sucks that some developers have this mentality about theWii...[QUOTE=''Tri-Enforcer''] I don't think 3rd party developers are worried about the Wii's success. They are worried about their INVOLVEMENT in the Wii's success a.k.a. making money off the Wii. Over 11 million Wiis later in less than a year, and I say 99.9% percent of those sales had nothing to do with 3rd parties. What I mean is that people aren't buying Wiis for third party games, since the majority are not system sellers. Looking at this, some developers assume that the Wii will be nothing without them in the future--I sure can't tell. To sum all this up, third parties are mad because they are not getting a piece of the pie, because they were late to the game and are now playing catch up.[/QUOTE]
The Billy Boot Camp DVD costs about $30 maximum. When you buy a Wii it's a $250 purchase, you don't shell over a big ol' pocket full of pennies that size unless you know what you're getting into.It's a Nintendo. In the sense that NES gave birth to what games were before this is the new era. The control are extremely primitive (as primitive as the NES graphics were) but its a great building block.
These are the same third parties that didn't understand the DS and usually have poor sales even on the PS2 in Japan. They expect crap to sell on the most popular platform and use the ps2 incredible ability to sell garbage as a judge for wii game success. Of course they forget that those who buy Nintendo consoles typically avoid third party garbage while those who buy sony consoles tend tobuy up the garbage games.
This is just a side effect of developers being ''drunk on technology'' so to speak. To them, it is impossiblefor any system without, for lack of a better term,all the bells and whistles of the two consoles being successful beyond a mere fad. Also, it is probably just some denial about being wrong about just how popular the Wii would be. I mean,even the most hardcore Nintendo fan thought it would be in second place at best. Now look at it: The thing friggin Beams money! Naturally, developers would be mad they're not getting ''a piece of the pie'', as Tri-Enforcer put it.
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[QUOTE=''mrmoeone'']Third-party developers, some said, had to cobble games together in an effort to quickly produce titles and keep up with Nintendo.[/QUOTE] Maybe they should have jumped on board right away instead of waiting to see what the launch was like. Sure now they're digging their greedy little hands in to try and get a piece. How could you not support the company that single handedly revived the video game market from its crash in 1983. They wouldn't be making games right now for ANY console if it wasn't for nintendo. They need to learn a little respect. /rant
well monster hunter 3 developers moved to the wii. if their game will sell big time, then that's a big slap to whoever said such thing in that article...it's more like they don't know how to make _optimized_ games, hence needing all the horsepower in a console they can get. lolz.
Wii have Brawl, PS60 haven't.Nuff said.
Nothing kills a system like bad software. So if the devs are worried about the Wii tanking, they need to realise alot of the Wii's success depends on their efforts. Nintendo has proven they can survive on minimal 3rd party support if they need to. They will survive.

I like how people say ''developers'' yet I've never seen any named in any of these reports. All I care about is Capcom, konami, namco, square/enix. They are all on board with the wii last time I checked.
couldnt have said it better myself...[QUOTE=''XBSHX''] [QUOTE=''mrmoeone'']Third-party developers, some said, had to cobble games together in an effort to quickly produce titles and keep up with Nintendo.[/QUOTE] Maybe they should have jumped on board right away instead of waiting to see what the launch was like. Sure now they're digging their greedy little hands in to try and get a piece. How could you not support the company that single handedly revived the video game market from its crash in 1983. They wouldn't be making games right now for ANY console if it wasn't for nintendo. They need to learn a little respect. /rant[/QUOTE]
Yeah because Billy's Boot Camp sounds like it was absolutely F-Awesome, while as the Wii, ha what a load of rubbish, it's just a games console with awesome conrols, nothing good there...
[QUOTE=''smithy92'']Wii have Brawl, PS60 haven't.Nuff said.[/QUOTE]That's great, it's probably one of the best series in gaming. Here's how great it is: SSBM was one of the first games on Gamecube, it is still it's best selling game. It's selling so well that Nintendo hasn't put it as a Player's choice game just so they can make $20 more, which the game is worth the whole price. Plus, how often do you see a copy of SSBM used? Not very.
I don't see why they would be? Any smart developer would make an xbox360/ps3 game and make more money off 2 systems with out having to really change anything in their game. If they made it Wii only that's like only half or less the profit. This is also why you see way more 3rd party support on the 360/ps3.