Sony’s worldwide studios president Phil Harrison recently revealed that more than 100 Playstation 3 games are currently in development. A list compiled on Wikipedia confirms, with sources, that more than 150 Wii games have been announced and are in development. This does not even include games that are in development but haven’t been announced! Both large companies, like Konami and Namco, and smaller developers, like Crossbeam Studios, are supporting the Wii.
Nintendo could probably support a console with first party titles alone, but who would really want that? Third party games made the Super Nintendo great, they have made the PS2 by far the most popular home console out of the three major offerings, and it looks like they will be the backbone of the Wii as well. Many third party developers, not just Ubisoft, are excited at what the Wii has to offer the gaming community. As the excitement builds for Wii, more publishers and developers are realizing what Infendo readers have known for a long time- Nintendo knows how to make a great video game console.
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This is great news and it keeps getting better. Kudos to Ubisoft for cranking up the support and showing that there is nothing to be afraid of. Hopefully Wii can keep up the hype steam and get even more devs on board. The key will be when more games like Red Steel and Raving Rabbids (games designed from the ground up for Wii) start hitting. The ports and updates are good for filler but for Wii to really shine, we need new genres and original and innovative content.
Look, don't get me wrong, I love Nintendo, and think the Wii is a thousand times more exciting than the PS3. But sheer numbers of games do not a console sell.Basically it's going to be all about those one or two must-have titles. For example, I bought an Xbox 360 almost entirely si I could play Oblivion (it was cheaper than upgrading my dinosaur of a PC).So, Wii v PS3 is not going to be fought by 100 games v 150+ games, it's going to be fought by Mario Galaxy v Metal Gear Solid 4, Twilight Princess v Final Fantasy XIII.It's about quality, not quantity.
Sheer numbers of games do sell consoles. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen a parent go into a games store to buy their kid a console only to base their decision of the fact that the PS2 has more games.
true…the nintendo64 and ps1 is also a good example for that. There has been more quality on the n64 but more quantity on the ps..and the ps sold better.But of course for us (nintendo gamers) quality is more important than quantity.I hope that there will be a new test-category in magazines about how good the game makes use of the special wii-features.
It is true that parents, when choosing a gaming console for their kids, used to pick the platform with the highest number of games. But that was from laziness… they just wanted to get the console that had the best chance of getting a game their kids would like, without actually having to look through dozens of magazine and online reviews.This time around the choice may be based on the possibility that the parents may enjoy for the first time actually playing video games with their kids, by choosing a platform with a more intuitive control device. I don't think that will be the 360 or the PS3…