wezeles
Guru of everything Ninty
Firts off games take a long time to make the games we are seeing come out now were being made a couple years ago... a couple years ago they probably didnt think nintendo would be beating 360 let alone killing ps3... they put the games where they "thought" the money was.
Ontop of that 3rd party games usually sell there rights to the highest bidder... sony/microsoft not having a huge selection of 1st and 2nd party games like nintendo, they usually are the highest bidder eaither taking or sharing rights to a game for a set amount of time before it can be released on another system. Remeber sony makes nothing off its systems only its games it relys on games and accesories to make any profit at all, xbox isnt much different... But this is good for developers because they get a chunk of cash before the game even sells, and they dont have to rely on game sales to recoup expenses... you would do it too if you knew it was a sure bet to atleast break even... And normally they are aloud the rights back after a set amount of time 3-18 months and then they sell it to the other consoles
The worst part is Nintendo wont buy 3rd party rights thats why! nintendo only makes money off gaming not computers and electronics as well... they have to make a profit to survive so not only do they not pay for these exclusive rights but they also take more of the profit from game sales then the other 2 systems...
dollar to dollar nintendo makes more money off there games,assecories, and systems then any other console company... but they have to they dont have anything else to fall back on to bail them out if they mess up... cough cough bill gates...
just watch over the next year with 3rd party games as they catch up to current sale levels you will see more and more 3rd partys being released on all 3 systems soley because they will loose a chance at 50% of the market if they dont offer it for the wii at the same time...
Ontop of that 3rd party games usually sell there rights to the highest bidder... sony/microsoft not having a huge selection of 1st and 2nd party games like nintendo, they usually are the highest bidder eaither taking or sharing rights to a game for a set amount of time before it can be released on another system. Remeber sony makes nothing off its systems only its games it relys on games and accesories to make any profit at all, xbox isnt much different... But this is good for developers because they get a chunk of cash before the game even sells, and they dont have to rely on game sales to recoup expenses... you would do it too if you knew it was a sure bet to atleast break even... And normally they are aloud the rights back after a set amount of time 3-18 months and then they sell it to the other consoles
The worst part is Nintendo wont buy 3rd party rights thats why! nintendo only makes money off gaming not computers and electronics as well... they have to make a profit to survive so not only do they not pay for these exclusive rights but they also take more of the profit from game sales then the other 2 systems...
dollar to dollar nintendo makes more money off there games,assecories, and systems then any other console company... but they have to they dont have anything else to fall back on to bail them out if they mess up... cough cough bill gates...
just watch over the next year with 3rd party games as they catch up to current sale levels you will see more and more 3rd partys being released on all 3 systems soley because they will loose a chance at 50% of the market if they dont offer it for the wii at the same time...