thefro said:
Even with the arcade ports likely coming + anime games from Bandai, there has to be some quality stuff in there.
Exactly. You throw enough shit at the wall and sooner or later something is going to stick, which means that at least some of these games must be quality... or something.
thefro said:
You add that to all the Konami games in the pipe, plus rumors of the Segas of the world shifting over development and Wii's Japanese software lineup looks pretty healthy once this all ramps up. The big question is whether or not all the third party games hit by next Christmas.
Well, there are a couple of things worth looking at here.
Namco Bandai's apparently got
a lot of Wii games in development. Konami's president thinks Wii is going to win Japan. Square Enix doesn't want a clear winner, which means supporting all three. Sega is apparently switching gears to support the Wii more strongly.
And that's great and all, but like I mentioned previously, seeing a shift in support from the big players like this really acts as a harbinger of where the smaller players are going to go... it'll really be worth keeping an eye on the Atluses, the N1s, the Irems, the Gusts, and so on and so forth. Because these companies tend to support a single platform almost exclusively (to reuse as much as they can from game to game), and it's usually the platform with the largest Japanese userbase / most support from the larger third party publishers.
