Nintendo president, Reggie Fils-Aime, recently sat down with the Wall Street Journal and talked about third party success on the Wii and the recurring idea that graphics will play a major role in the console wars further down the road.
Even though he admitted the no third party game has yet to break the one-million sales mark, they’re getting close – at least two Ubisoft titles are closing in on the milestone. In addition, while many large publishers early on kept initial focus on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and decided to create or utilize second string development teams for Wii game production, the shift in support in favor of the Wii is moving resources to development for Nintendo’s console. As the big publishers and developers start putting more resources into Wii production, the game quality will go up and the sales will follow. Reggie himself expects to see great success from EA’s Boogie and RedOctane’s Guitar Hero III.
In response to the widespread claim that the Wii will age faster and have a shorter lifespan due to its graphical inferiority to rival consoles, Reggie simply had this to say: “I guess when you’re not doing well you have to grasp at something.” After all, how’s that DS doing?
