Patcher says Core audience on Wii only wants Nintendo games

Analyst Michael Patcher says Core gamers who own a Wii only interested in first party core games

The whole core games issue rears its ugly head again and probably won’t ever go away again. Webush Morgan analyst, Michael Pachter has said in a new interview that the audience of core gamers on the Wii are only interested in core games made by Nintendo. He says while games like The Conduit did a decent enough job, that it and games targeted to that audience will never sell unless they are made by Nintendo and that’s why they are not selling well.

Here is the entire question posed to Patcher;

IG:  With mature titles like The Conduit and others released on Wii with less than stellar sales numbers, do you believe theres enough of a core audience on Wii for third parties to even bother with?

Pachter:  Good question, and I’m going to take some heat for my answer. The “core” Wii audience is a Mario/Zelda/Smash Bros./Metroid audience, not a Conduit audience. To the extent that the Wii is the only console that the core gamer owns, it’s likely because the only games he/she cares about are first party core titles. Most core Wii owners who care about shooter games other than Metroid already own an Xbox 360 (to play Halo or Gears), or own a PS3 (to play Resistance or Killzone). So when a game like The Conduit comes out on the Wii, these core gamers are making a comparison to Halo or Killzone, and are deciding accordingly. High Voltage did a decent job with The Conduit, especially given the graphic limitations of the Wii, but the game didn’t look and feel as good as games like Halo or Killzone, and if a gamer had both a Wii and either a PS3 or Xbox 360, it’s easy to see why they would pass on The Conduit in favor of a hard core game on one of the other platforms.

We’d like to think that most of the people who read this site don’t think like that, however with the millions and millions of Wii’s out there maybe we’re in the minority. SEGA recently said that they consider The Conduit a success and if that’s the case it doesn’t matter what Patcher thinks.

Do you only own your Wii to play Nintendo games?

Source: Industry Gamers