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Retailers say no to Wii party games?
Retailers fed up with minigames
According to an article on Gamasutra stores like Best Buy and Target have told game publishers to stop contacting them regarding collections of minigames as they're not interested in putting them in their shops anymore.
Stores like Target and Best Buy have reportedly told game publishers not to even bother approaching them with collections of mini games, which they will no longer pick up.
The Wii has outsold the PS3 and X360 with phenomenal numbers over the past years and attracted a whole different audience to gaming, but those people don't keep spending their money on games. Once they have what they want, they don't buy anything further and flooding the market with more and more collections of minigames is therefore not going to help. Eventhough some collections can still sell really well.Michael Pachter seems to agree with that:
"Wii publishers need to concentrate on fewer games but games of higher quality," he says. "There is just too much shovelware around -- like the $15 games in the end-cap bargain bins at Target. Companies like Majesco just spin them out non-stop and there are tons of them. They aren't helping anybody keep their lights on."
The problem with less games is that it also means less royalties for Nintendo. And if third party publishers start abandoning the platform, it may cause serious issues according - again - to Pachter:"the real question is what is Nintendo going to do about the fact that their third-party software isn't moving since theirs is a royalty model and less content isn't good for them. They need to do something to encourage the third parties to create more, not less, content. Otherwise, Nintendo is going to lose all its third-party royalties and, well, they can't afford that."
To be honest, Nintendo has had plenty of momentum with the Wii, even with third party publishers, but I've never seen Nintendo as a real third party publisher platform. If you look at the big three, it's clear that Microsoft is most dependant on third parties, while Nintendo has always had their platforms (like the Gamecube) run mostly on first party titles. Sony with their Playstation consoles seem to be somewhere in between.In other news:
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