The Nintendo Wii is not worth developing for. It is nearer the end of its life cycle than the other two consoles and it is mainly first party games published by Nintendo themselves that sell. Third party titles from other publishers are mainly low quality shovelware that have now frightened the consumer off. The two handheld consoles, the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP are also not worth developing for despite the immense numbers of these that have been sold. Quite simply, piracy has ripped the market up. Vastly more people will steal your game than will pay for it. - Bruce Everiss
Before I go on, here’s Bruce’s profile so you can learn a bit about him.
Bruce has joined a start-up computer games company twice in his career — first Imagine, then Codemasters — in the senior marketing role and helped each to become the best-selling publisher in the UK in its first year of trading. He also set up the All Formats Computer Fairs, which he ran for nearly 20 years and over 1,000 events around the UK and through many very prosperous years until their function was largely replaced by the internet.
Bruce is so right. If anyone would bother to look at the most recent sales figures in Europe, North America, and Japan…we would see that consumers have indeed been scared off the Wii. On top of that, no one even buys DS games anymore. Bravo Bruce, thanks for speaking the truth.
Oh wait, that’s the complete opposite of what’s going on in the real world!
