Third-party Wii titles haven't had the same success as first-party games, and at one point or another everyone has been blamed. Bloober and Reggie blame the developers, some gamers blame Nintendo, Capcom blames lack of customers, and so on.

Nintendonow.e-mpire.com takes a look at nintendo and their third-parties, and what the third-party devs and publishers can do to help boost their sales on the Wii console...

Over the past 3 years I've been noticing that more and more developers continue to complain about sales on the Wii. Big budget exclusives like, The Conduit, Mad World, and the previously mentioned Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles have all sold somewhat mediocre. Although High Voltage Software didn't complain about the sales of The Conduit, they seemed somewhat satisfied, Wii owners still realized it didn't sell as well as High Voltage made it out to be.

I've come to notice some things about all of Nintendo's 3rd party developers. They only campaign their titles through internet and magazines. Sorry to tell you third parties, but not everyone is connected to the internet, nor have subscriptions to gaming magazines. Third parties tend to forget that every household in the world have televisions. For the aforementioned games above, readers think to yourself, did you see a huge marketing campaign through television for these games? Your answer is probably "no." Here's what the third parties do, they release a game then forget that it exists, then begin to put all their attention on some PS3 or 360 game they are developing, never to discuss the Wii again. Us Wii owners are just rats for the third parties. They feed off of us, then don't give us anything back in return. We pay for games that aren't advertised, they take our money and then put all of that money into a project that will NEVER see the light of day on the Wii. It's been going on for 3 years now, and this trend doesn't seem to be letting up.

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