Nintendo responds to third-party Wii concerns (News)

GamePro staff, GamePro (online)

30/01/2008 14:39:43

"Our [first-party] game sales percentage is currently high because our internal teams know the Wii's special characteristics best, and they started development quite a bit before the Wii's release," the company said in its third-quarter filing translated by Develop. "However, we believe that this will eventually change."

According to Nintendo, of the 14 Wii titles that sold more than a million copies, only three were from third-party developers. By contrast, of the 50 DS titles that sold over a million, 23 were third-party games. It should be noted that Nintendo first-party games dominated the DS early on as the company was one of the only companies supporting the then novel handheld.

"We identified the same thing in the DS' first period, and the situation continues to change little by little," said Nintendo. "For the Wii too, we believe that as time passes, the proportion of high-selling titles that come from our licensees will increase."