Third-party Wii games aren't selling, says developer (News)

GamePro staff, GamePro (online)

17/01/2008 18:38:11

"Whilst the sales weren't as high as I hoped, other titles for Wii aren't selling so well either," said No More Heroes director Goichi Suda in an interview with CVG published on Wednesday. "Only Nintendo titles are doing well. This isn't just because of the current situation in Japan, as this is happening outside Japan."

He went on to say, "Before I was making this game, I wasn't expecting that Wii would be a console targeted only for non-gamers. I expected more games for hardcore gamers. The reality is different to what I expected."

Though Nintendo has made a killing on Wii, the company is not immune from poor sells of traditional games in their homeland or abroad. In 2006, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess did little more than induce yawns from Japanese gamers, and didn't sell as expected in the U.S. Inversely, Activision's Guitar Hero 3 has sold like gangbusters on Wii.

However, the possibility exists where some third-party Wii developers may grow impatient with failure, and ditch the platform altogether much like previous Nintendo systems.

No More Heroes arrives in the US on January 22, 2008.