"One major question on gamers' and certainly publisher's mind this generation is, "Why doesn't third party games sell as well as first party on the Wii?" And I think the reason why they don't sell as well as first party titles is quite obvious, and has been overlooked by the gaming press and gamers."
-TheGamerAccess.com
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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Demos? Really that is just retarded. Quality is the reason they do not sell as well. Guitar Hero sales better on Wii because the game is actually good and on par with the other console versions. Shaun White snowboarding is another example of the Wii version selling better.
It's not impossible to sell your games on Wii, you just have to offer quality. Boom Blox sold well enough to warrant a sequel. De Blob,Force Unleashed, NMH, Red Steel, and so on and so on. Hell Nintendo just said the other day they have 75 million sellers in the US alone. 60 or so of those must be 3rd party because Nintendo isnt making all 75 games.
I think it is a matter of certain publishers are selling because they offer good games or something unique and others are not getting first rate sales because they do not treat the Wii and their Wii games as first rate.
I do believe that quality of games is the cause. Look at all the shovelware out there on the Wii. Lots of boring mini games and crappy ports.
People now a days want a game to be more challenging and more rewarding to play. Seeing these crappy games actually being published really offends me as a gamer. All these 3rd party Devs basically jump on the bandwagon hoping to make a quick buck just because of the huge console install base.
I'm also sad to say that I've worked on a few of these crappy games..but it's not my fault though, please don't kill me!!
To show what games are great to play, and they need to support third parties by giving the praise that they earn. The flood of crappy games is making the wii look bad overall. I know there are some good games for the wii, people aren't knowledgeable. Give them knowledge. Pick the cream of the crop, first second or third party, and advertise the hell out of them, for free. You got the money. It'll cause more competition to make better games, that you will take them under your wings for their hard efforts. Call it Cream of the Crop, and put 15 games on the pedestal each year.