The chart may be useless but Ninty is still right.
VGchartz isn't perfect by any stretch, but I'll trust them over the wiki. 35 of the top 50 titles (all of which are at half a million or more units sold) are from third parties. Plus, VGchartz has seriously undertracked some 3rd party titles (Boom Blox), so the reality may be more favorable.
Sure, there are a lot of Nintendo titles near the top of the list. But aside from the fact that they manufacture consoles, Nint...
They're not usually this off, so I'll give them a pass. Still, I'd be interested in seeing a list of Wii titles that they gave a higher rating. Would definitely be good for some laughs.
One of the reasons there are so few top notch 3rd party games for the Wii is that so far only Nintendo has had the motivation to spend the time and money to develop games from the ground up, specifically for the console.
Like we all know, third parties worried it would be a fad, and hedged by porting existing PS2 and Gamecube games, or by using an existing PS2 game engine. The Wii has even seen PSP(!) ports. I'm looking at you, Alien Syndrome. If nothing else, we've come a long w...
Wonder if the devs kept an internal list of rejected names. Have to think it might include:
Super FordKart
Excite Ford
Xtreme Rover Racing
I'll pass.
If the PS3 has occasional spikes in sales, coinciding with the release of AAA titles, then it isn't quite accurate to cherry pick those data points and conclude that it's catching up.
Don't get me wrong, it would be big news if true. But this doesn't seem like anything worth getting worked up over.
I wonder if the biggest news about this game is not The Conduit itself but, instead, the fact that someone built a game engine from the ground-up to be optimized for the Wii (rather than the ever-unpopular PS2 port option) and that could be licensed to other devs?
Time will tell, but this could be a good sign for the Wii.
The Wii's biggest problem was that it was dismissed early on. And why not? Nintendo was fresh off of two lackluster entries into the console market, and the Wii had everything going against it, since it went directly against the industry trend of bigger, faster, multimedia machines.
So what happens next? Nintendo releases first-rate first-party titles. As you'd expect, seeing as their console's survival depen...
@jlytle1234
EA's Wii titles have been absolute garbage. You can't keep on crapping out terrible games like NCAA 09 and then complain that Wii owners aren't buying, so the console is hopeless.
If EA put anywhere near the amount of resources into developing titles for the Wii as it did for the 360/PS3, and still saw poor sales . . . THEN I would agree that EAis wrong to focus on the Wii. But the fact is that so far they haven't even tried.
It might be so far, though that isn't saying much. 2k's other efforts for the Wii (MLB2k8 and Top Spin) both have their moments, but both feel unfinished. EA's NCAA Football 09 is absolute garbage. EA's heavy hitters are still to be released (Tiger Woods and Madden), but the All-Play version of NCAA is bad enough to make you skeptical.
Really, the only competition is Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2008. The great thing is that neither has a full $49.99 price tag. The choice is you...
Shows how pointless the two-zone concept is in practice - even if it makes sense in theory.
This story never had a chance. That is all.