Why do developers make so many crappy games on the Wii?

Dragon Blade's average rating: 50% :?

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/941527.asp

I swear, I think these developers are spending next to nothing in making these terrible games on purpose just to make a quick buck. Anyway, these terrible games should stop...but you know the'll keep on coming. :x

I read an article about this game the other day, it's D3 a budget developer who re-uses assets to make stripped down games at budget prices.... like this. Dragon Blade is an example of the bad end of the spectrum, there are medium end examples and niche delights other than this.

That said there is a disturbing lack of big budget traditional sty-le fare from a lot of publishers.

I think a lot of it is that developers aren't sure what to do with the Wii; another part of it is its unfriendliness to cross-platform development (both ways).

But most importantly, I think that a lot of developers and publishers are looking at the Wii and seeing that it has a huge installed user base, but that demographically speaking, most of those users bought it as an expensive toy. These users want to mess around with Wii Sports and maybe a couple of other gimmicky games, but they aren't really interested in "serious" gaming--they or their kids just saw someone playing with the Wiimote and thought it looked interesting and fun. But the next big shooter? Or god forbid, strategy game? RPG? They wouldn't know what to do with it even if they were interested in the idea of it. Which they're not.

Developers and publishers realize all of this. They know that there's not much of a market for core games on the Wii; so they put a weak, low-cost development team on the console and tell them to make light, gimmicky games that will sell to the "expensive toy" user base.

I really think that's the truth and the whole story, and it's too bad, because the Wii's control system does have a lot of potential for interesting, serious, and original gameplay. But the way things are going, it will rarely be exploited.

Dragon Blade's average rating: 50% :?

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/941527.asp

I swear, I think these developers are spending next to nothing in making these terrible games on purpose just to make a quick buck. Anyway, these terrible games should stop...but you know the'll keep on coming. :x

ASK_Story

That's one of the reasons I sold my Wii...so I feel your pain. The developers absolutely half-ass everything for the Wii, and it just pissed me off. I got myself an ownage gaming PC instead of sticking with Nintendo...and I'll never go back.

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Dragon Blade's average rating: 50% :?

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/941527.asp

I swear, I think these developers are spending next to nothing in making these terrible games on purpose just to make a quick buck. Anyway, these terrible games should stop...but you know the'll keep on coming. :x

Testoster0wn

That's one of the reasons I sold my Wii...so I feel your pain. The developers absolutely half-ass everything for the Wii, and it just pissed me off. I got myself an ownage gaming PC instead of sticking with Nintendo...and I'll never go back.

I feel sorry for you. You will miss out SMG, SSBB, MP3, NMH, BWii, RE:UC, FF:CC:CC, SCL, Rygar, NiGHTS,etc. And oh i have a high end gaming PC too but it's not stopping me from enjoying my wii. With wii exclusives, PC multiplats that are also on Xbox 360 and PS3 and PC exclusives like The Wiitcher and Crysis, this is a great gen for me. I don't need PS3 and Xbox 360 games.

Anyway, sooner or later wii will have epic and great games. Wii has much more crap games since it's no. 1 in console sales right now. PS2 had thousands of crap games (i know its a little bit exaggerated but i mean there were countless crap games).