...that consumers need to better support (i.e. buy) Wii exclusive titles like Zack & Wiki, Trauma Center, Elebits...etc.

I do think it is possible that development studios will stop spending the time and effort to make new single player experiences specific for the Wii (like Z&W or Dewy) if they simply don't see the potential for profit. Only time will tell on this front.

For instance I think this holiday season any game on Wii will likely be overshadowed by SMG (except maybe for Zelda or Metroid). So I do think this is a valid concern for third party developers. Many Wii owners just look from Nintendo release to Nintendo release (so, next is Mario Kart and Smash Bros.).

However, I certainly don't think my Wii is a novelty. I haven't grown tired of it since launch. I make Miis and go to the voting channel nearly everyday.

Wii's biggest problem is the huge set of horrible 3rd party games but I believe it will continue to live because of 1st party titles of Nintendo and their franchises. Plus, with SSBB, many MANY more will get into Wii as well as many other casual gamers being attracted to Wii because of (really disgusting) WiiFit.

Games like Zack & Wiki and Metroid Prime 3 are great examples that Wii could change the way some genres are played (Classic adventure and FPS). Let's hope more devs go that way instead of under-exploiting Wii with bad ports and mediocre things like Soul Calibur Legends.

i don't really see a drastic change but i do think its possible that the wii might loose some momentum. I think the wii i will still sell excellently however, it will probably not like it has been.

he does have a point, third party games are really lacking in good gameplay and many of the games right now have pretty bad graphics. i know the wii isn't up there with the ps3 and 360 but look at SMG, MP3, and RE4. its not the best but its enough to the point where it doesn't really need more improvement in graphics.

and publishers need to step it up and stop making crappy games with only minigames in it.only cause the wii has high sales doesn't mean whatever game comes out is gonna sell out.

this little plastic piece of garbage needs to go away.

It's not the Wii's fault if attachment rates are low. Developers need to realise they are shooting themselves in the foot if they try to quickly cash in on the Wii's popularity without making thorough and note-worthy games.

As soon as developers and publishers stop rushing titles on the Wii and put in the effort some do for an XBox360 or PS3 title (months of planning, years of development?) then those 3rd party titles will be the new sales-chart toppers...

The simple fact is that todays consumers are more demanding and will more look beyond the ooh's and aah's of pretty graphics and novelty values... We want games with lasting appeal..

I personally hope to try out Zack & Wiki when it finally comes out in Europe early next year as that title to ME looks very promissing to NOT be a quick gimmick that would be old and boring within a week or two...

I guaratee you when this generation is over and all 3 consoles are finished selling( I bassically mean the PS3 which could be 9-10 years from now) It will either look like this:
1.)PS3
2.)Wii
3.)Xbox 360

or this:
1.)Wii
2.)PS3
3.)Xbox 360

I GUARANTEE YOU...

yOU CAN DISAGREE BUT IT WILL HAPPEN

Let us all pray to the god of video games that the Wii fails and fails miserably. The Wii will ruin gaming forever if it becomes too powerfull, because it will mean the end of cutting edge graphics, high powered processors, intelligent enemy A.I., complex physics, voice acting, and so on and so on, and it will replace all of these great advances with a gimmicky motion controller. The Wii=the destruction of hard core games.
Please Lord, destroy the Wii. Make it fail. In the name of progress, and for the good of all video games destroy it. Amen.

Narayan Pattison also bashed the hell out of the original PlayStation while he worked for N64 Gamer, so the only real news this blog post offers is that Narayan rabidly supports whichever console he has a personal financial interest in which hardly offers any semblance of an objective opinion.

EDIT: Disagree must mean that there's a chimp sitting behind a keyboard that can't use Google, so here: http://www.derwenthoward.co...

They are huge nintendo fanboys over there, its ok even the most loyal of nintendo fanbots needs to see the wii is just heading the way of the game cube but this time with no games and last gen. graphics which sucks, and look milkio galaxy flopped sales-wise.
the wii is a complete disaster.

It couldn't possibly be that 3rd party games haven't sold well on the Wii so far because the majority of them have been poorly made and depthless, or secondary titles in order to make a quick buck could it? No way that the fact that they haven't been marketing them or advertising them much at all could have anything to do with it right? </sarcasm> :p

Here's the way I see it. Since it only takes about 300-400k or less in game sales for profit to be made on a Wii game, and even crappy games are getting to that mark currently, the more the install base grows, the more fail proof profit will become for Wii game developers. I don't think Nintendo or 3rd party developers are as worried as people like to speculate.

No doubt there is a big difference between 1st and 3rd party game success, but if you look at the 3rd party games that have been a success, you'll notice that for the most part they are quality games. Not some thrown together crap or a PS2 port. As a Wii owner, I find PS2 ports to be an insult. I don't buy them. The only one I will get is Okami, and that rather grudgingly. Regardless of what system one supports, I think any gamer can understand that. No one likes or will buy crap if they can help it. Sooner or later developers will remember that. The blame lies with them until they do better, and/or advertise instead of being cheap a$$e$ even after having the luxury of low development costs.

FTW

Exodus - I fail to understand how I'm a sellout because I was disappointed with the orginal PlayStation a decade ago? The N64 had better games than the original PlayStation – I doubt you'll find many people to disagree with that. However, since the N64 I've found the GameCube, then the Wii more and more disappointing. Again – this is a very valid opinion, shared by many people (including the vast majority of posts about this story). Considering I own all three current consoles and mentioned in my article that I spend equal amounts of time playing my Xbox 360 and PS3 calling me a "rabid supporter" of PlayStation is clearly ridiculous.

TheExodus---You carry the mark of the beast! Just kidding.....I am not demanding a $6000 PC experience on a $400 console. I am perfectly satisfied with what the PS3 and the 360 are giving me now. I just don't want developers to spend one precious SECOND or one precious DOLLAR developing games for a last gen console who's only claim to fame is a glorified power glove! The Wiimote is not an earth shattering, mind blowing invention. It will not change the face of video games for long. Almighty Odin, let the Wii be wiped off the face of the earth! I beseech thee!

3rd party developers have yet to release an A list title for the Wii. Most of their games have been pure trash, and a few mediocre. With the effort they've put into these titles, nobody would expect them to sell well on any system.

I think that Zack and Wiki is a great title. But no one outside of the relatively small group of internet game news followers knows about it? The game wasn't advertised. How can any company expect to sell anything if they don't advertise it? Then Wii owners get stigmatized as non-supportive of good games. I personally believe that if every Wii owner knew about this game and how challenging and fun it is, it would have sold over a million by now. So A-list game or not, these companies need to put ads in comics, magazines, and on TV if they want people to know about them and buy them. That's my opinion anyway...

...people would buy them. RE4, Guitar Hero, DDR...

Okami will be another good example of that.

As previously mentioned, the AVERAGE game only takes 100,000 copies to break even on the Wii as I know I have read that somewhere.

Someone said the Wii winning will hold back the evolution of gaming with no advanced ai, voice acting etc.etc. Nintendo has already said the next Nintendo console will be HD. Further more, look for Nintendo to use the same pricing strategy as they did this generation. Whatever we get next will cost $250-300 but will be about 200-250 to manufacture in 4 years from now if Nintendo follows the traditional hardware cycle. The next Nintendo will probably not have cutting edge hardware but it will be more powerful than ps3/360. Why?: a year ago the premium 360 only cost 323 dollars to manufacture from 525 dollars the year before that.

http://www.2old2play.com/Ne...

200 Dollars cheaper to manufacture in one years time!!!! Wii2 will be significantly more powerful than 360/ps3. Furthermore; Were already hitting a graphics saturation point where a lot more hardware power is not going to make a big visual difference from what we already have.

Pertaining to the topic of the thread; The Bubble will not burst; IF anything, sales will gradually go down. The wii is not going to sell 640,000 units globally one week and then ( burst ) and sell 50,000 the next week. The mere fact that the author used words like "burst the bubble" should suggest the over the top nature of the article unless it was only to be controversial and garnish attention.

Someone said no big games for 08 - Um, Smash Bros. and Mario Kart in First Quarter of 2008

The Bottom Line for me is this: Nintendo already guaranteed another home console after the Wii so whatever happens does not make alot of difference to me. Furthermore; I am having fun with the Wii as is. Either way, I still say the Wii's bubble is not going to "Burst" look at the DS vs PSP. It is the same situation all the way down to the price, graphics, and controlls and even the the ds was supposed to be a short lived gimmik, whos bubble was also supposed to burst, several years later the psp is outsold by the ds over 2:1, this is a replicaton of what Wii vs PS3/360 already is and will continue to be in a couple more years. Say what you want but the signs point to Wii taking this race.

Even if Sony or Microsoft have a stellar lineup of games set up for 2008, Nintendo has something they both DON'T have... A different demography. We're talking about baby boomers, parents, and retirement. A demographic that is more than three times that of the hardcore. Even if a few publishers decide to leave the Wii camp (and given the installed base, that would be hard) Nintendo is pumping out Smash Bros. Brawl, which is by far their biggest and most anticipated game. The author of this article also seems to forget that every time Nintendo releases a title worthy of interest, it soars to the #1 sales rank. Mario Galaxy is a perfect example and Metroid 3 being in the top ten as well. Therefore this article is pure rubbish.

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Oysters, he gives no credible data. There is no statistics, it is merely a blog article of opinion. Do I need to remind you of the attachment rate of Zelda/Wii? How about Super Mario Galaxy topping the Amazon charts? To be blunt, my comment has as much credibility as his. So no, I did not "miss the point".

Naz... by the looks of it, I'm guessing your the author of the blog right? Okay, first I did read your article. I still think it's an opinion piece. And why do you think I still haven't mentioned anything about your third party titles? Perhaps because they are still selling, they just aren't anywhere near first party titles. And where are you trying to contradict the Metroid top ten? Are you trying to talk about consistency? I'm talking about its first few weeks of availability. Sorry mite, looks like your the one who doesn't get it. Try using substantial data to further back up your viewpoints and then we all can say otherwise.

The author single argument is that he and his friends didn't like it too much and got bored with it quickly. And so have many XBox 360 and PS3 customers. Statistics could build up an argument such as this, personal experiences means nothing in a big market with different kind of customers.

Considering third support, the lower development costs means Wii games are profitable with considerably less sales than PS3 and 360 ones. As such, third party companies are making good money from it. However, it is obvious that many third party offerings suck and it is no wonder why they are not selling well. Still, Ubisoft and Capcom appear to be doing good in the Wii market with some products selling more than a million copies (Red Steel, Rayman Raving Rabbits, and Resident Evil 4), so it is just a question of doing the job right.

The reason fanboys keep saying the Wii success won't last, despite it being unbelievably successful for over 12 months and outselling 360 and PS3 combined for most of the year, is BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT IT TO SUCCEEED. You know what that is called? It's called Wishful Thinking!!

Wish all you want but the mass market has spoken.

Rayman Raving Rabbids, Red Steel, Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition are all world wide 1 million + third party sellers. Guess how many 1 million + third party sellers are on the PS3? Zero!

Guitar Hero 3 on Wii is sure to top 1 million.

If third party developers make high quality games like Nintendo then their games are bound to sell well.

when the consumers realize that the graphics are all about not being 7 years ago, wii is stuck in a time lapse, which will come back to haunt it when people stop wanting fun, childish games(which killed gamecube) and figure that they want realistic life-like games, the sales that you see are already slowing down as you see on the front page ps3 outsold wii in november in JAPAN, what do you think is going to happen when bombs from ps3, the true bombs come in 2008? its over for wii and 180, but mostly wii, sony ps3 has had no true original franchises but ratchet and clank, but this is changing in the end of this year and next year more, and so on, 2008 is Reconstruction for ps3

PLAY B3YOND

One game will bring all others on their knees and that is Super Smash Brothers. More Wiis will go flying of the shelves than any other console. Look at the DS, it is still on top selling almost a half million each month. What people don't understand is that there is a huge Wii culture out there now. Wii is like a religion, no Wii is bigger than religion, and it is apparent that not everyone will enjoy the Wii, but that is their opinion. I love it when people like this state I don't enjoy the Wii so it will fail. Yeah, like the whole gaming community revolves around how this one dude feels.

"Xbox 360's ring of death was not Microsoft's fault. The Wii just beat the mess out of the 360, and the 360 couldn't take the pressure"

"PS3 doesn't use Blue Ray because it is the future, they use it to copy the Wii's blue light on the cd tray"

"The Wii is so so sexy Angelina Jolie left Brad Bitt to be with the Wii"

"What is better than sex? Beer. What is better than Beer? The Wii."

And the list goes on and it. There is even a campaign to get mario elected for president in 2008. This is not something that is going away, and I am going to laugh when Sony and Microsoft include a wii mote on their next systems.

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All the world knows, that NINTY reinvent the game consoles market
And the rest only copy, thise nintendo invents
For that reazon the nintendo logo mark, is best knowed to mercedes benz logo, and all the people can buy a WII, but not all can buy a MERCEDES BENZ

The problem with game industry, is generally one step, behind NINTY
And if you THINK A LITTLE, there are many games proyected to ps2, that sell the same in ninty compared to 120 millions consoles in ps2 to 15 millions in wii

Here goes again the same discussion...keep thinking that the wii is a fad, all the great games are not even out, how can someone think its going to stop selling anytime soon? not for at least 2 more years i think

it should be why the competition hope wii will fade.. and that it will not happen with smash and mario kart and animal crossing..wii will sell even more.. so more tears for more fanboys

The blog author claims the Wii is doomed because third party games aren't selling well. As evidence he points out that no third party Wii games have made the top 10 list in the past three weeks. Three weeks? Come on!

I could just as easily cite the fact that there are THREE third party million copy sellers on the Wii. The only two million copy sellers the PS3 has--Resistance:FOM and Motorstorm--are both Sony titles.

Yes, the Wii has an attach rate about 14% lower than the PS3, but the greater number of consoles sold more than makes up for that.

I didn't think they'd regurgitate this idea so soon. But, yahoo. Have fun speculating.