Tomando como ejemplo los últimos juegos mas importantes, el capo capón de Nintendo Reggie Fils-Aime se refirió a la falta de juegos Core dentro de los creadores en Nintendo.

The interesting thing about this business is that developers love to create technically advanced games, and very visually stunning games, but the fact of the matter is not all of that content is selling exceptionally well either,”

Le dijo a IndustryGamers en la GDC.

Look at the most recent NPD results. I’m not sure how much was invested into a game like Dante’s Inferno, or how much is invested into a game like BioShock 2, but if that sales level is the best that they will do in a particular month, and it’ll fall off rapidly from there, then those games aren’t going to pay off their investment.

So to me, it’s a much bigger question than ‘why aren’t developers creating core content for the Wii?’ It’s a much broader question: ‘How can the development community create content that will strike a chord with consumers and be financially attractive?’

For us, it is important that third parties bring their very best content to our platform. You could say ‘Why?’ It’s because… well, let me focus in on the West.

There are 28 million Wiis out there in the marketplace. We know, based on our data, that we’ve got consumers from 5 to 95 playing on that platform. The fact of the matter is we know we create great content for younger consumers, we know we’ve got great content for more casual players, and we want fantastic content for that more active player who loves Metroid or Zelda but maybe also wants something like a BioShock 2 to play as well. And we also recognize that we don’t create that type of content ourselves. We’re not good at it and it’s not a key focus area.

As a platform holder our responsibility is to create a large installed base for developers to create content, to provide them with the tools and the insight to help them create great games, and to have in place a profit model that motivates them to create the content and reap the rewards. We’ve done that; global installed base is over 67 million for Wii and there are 120 million in the DS family. So there’s a large installed base, an easy platform to develop for and a strong set of tools out there.

So we want that content on our platform, so we have to court third-party developers and encourage them to make [those games], but it also has to be financially viable for them as well.

Básicamente con este texto gigante, a lo que se refiere Reggie es que para los juegos AAA se invierte muchísima plata y las ventas de esos juegos crece rápidamente, pero también cae rápidamente en uno o 2 meses, y que no es tan buena la recuperación de la inversión inicial.

Y el foco de atención en particular de la Wii es otro, definitivamente.

Ventas de Hardware en Febrero de 2010:

1. Nintendo DS 613.2K
2. Xbox 360 422.0K
3. Wii 397.9K
4. PlayStation 3 360.1K
5. PSP 133.4K
6. PlayStation 2 101.9K

Que se yo, es medio obvio que el fuerte de Nintendo definitivamente es otro, y no tiene nada que ver con los juegos Core, la definición de la maquina es completamente Casual, no hay novedad al respecto.

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