Third Party Publishers Hurt by Nintendo’s Success

[JKKDARK]

via Advanced Media Network

The April NPD numbers have finally been released, and it looks like Nintendo has been performing all the right moves.

The company sold a combined 831,000 Nintendo DS and Wii units over the monthly period with an estimated 63% of total Wii games and 79% of all DS games sold developed by Nintendo themselves. Yet Nintendo’s success has come at the expense of many third-party publishers who depend on the younger demographic for a huge chunk of their monthly revenue.

Take for example Electronic Arts, whose sales fell an estimated 44% to $37.9 million in monthly revenue. EA’s Medal of Honor: Vanguard for the PlayStation 2 and Wii sold only 56,000 units combined, while only 53,000 copies of Tiger Woods PGA Tour for the Wii were sold. Indeed, Pacific Crest’s Evan Wilson stated that a recent "shift in interest to Nintendo products has clearly stolen share from third-party games across all platforms." He continued, "This has had the greatest effect on Electronic Arts due to its size."

Other companies that saw a slide in software revenue included Take-Two Interactive, which had a 54.5 percent decrease in sales ending at $19.8 million. THQ suffered a 27.6 percent fall to 13.4 million for the period.

According to UBS analyst Benjamin A. Schachter, “A key to the successes of many publishers during the last console cycle was market share gains at the expense of first-party publishers. We are concerned that this cycle may revert somewhat back to greater share gains for the first-party players, particularly as Nintendo rebounds and Microsoft focuses on and improves its AAA titles."

[Veskgar]

GOOD!

Not only is Nintendo king of the Video Game world once again but they are shaking the industry up by basically being an example of DON'T DEVELOP CRAPPY RECYCLED GAMES!

There is a lack of truly unique, wonderful, and engaging games from 3rd parties. At least as far as the DS Lite and PSP are concerned.

Not all 3rd party developers are on my blacklist. Square-Enix for instance has shown to be very strong with both Nintendo and SONY.

I hope this is another step towards better games. I'm sick of seeing people being ripped off by games like "Pimp my Rid", "Winx", etc. to name a couple PSP games. I'm sick of Movie games being terrible, such as TMNT for the DS and PSP.

Something needs to happen and Its good to have Nintendo leading the way.

[alienanthropologist]

GOOD!

Not only is Nintendo king of the Video Game world once again but they are shaking the industry up by basically being an example of DON'T DEVELOP CRAPPY RECYCLED GAMES!

There is a lack of truly unique, wonderful, and engaging games from 3rd parties. At least as far as the DS Lite and PSP are concerned.

Not all 3rd party developers are on my blacklist. Square-Enix for instance has shown to be very strong with both Nintendo and SONY.

I hope this is another step towards better games. I'm sick of seeing people being ripped off by games like "Pimp my Rid", "Winx", etc. to name a couple PSP games. I'm sick of Movie games being terrible, such as TMNT for the DS and PSP.

Something needs to happen and Its good to have Nintendo leading the way.

I couldn't agree more. :thumbup:

[Basil Zero]

Nintendo is king of gaming, their showing their colors from the NES era WOOT!!

Nintendo 4 Life!

[Shadowblind]

I don't know...go Nintendo, but...hurting my favorite third party publishers isn't what I'd call good...

[Rafaelfrota]

And what?
EA is not selling games because they mostly suck =P
If they want to compete with BigN, make real games.

[Joe88]

GOOD!

Not only is Nintendo king of the Video Game world once again but they are shaking the industry up by basically being an example of DON'T DEVELOP CRAPPY RECYCLED GAMES!

There is a lack of truly unique, wonderful, and engaging games from 3rd parties. At least as far as the DS Lite and PSP are concerned.

Not all 3rd party developers are on my blacklist. Square-Enix for instance has shown to be very strong with both Nintendo and SONY.

dont forget namco
katamari damacy

[iceman100]

These stupid assed companies don't know anything, and if you want to make money stop making $#@!y game period.

[ab88]

Take for example Electronic Arts, whose sales fell an estimated 44% to $37.9 million in monthly revenue.

EA is not selling well because the make uber $#@!. I cannot see why they made so much money in the first place. Remaking the same crap over and over EVERY year.
Also as soon as you bought one of their games another one was out and yours was worth $5 at any game store :[

Edit: Lol I just remembered when NBA fans complained to EA because they felt cheated for buying their stuff.

[Joe88]

EA is not selling well because the make uber $#@!. I cannot see why they made so much money in the first place. Remaking the same crap over and over EVERY year.
Also as soon as you bought one of their games another one was out and yours was worth $5 at any game store :[

Edit: Lol I just remembered when NBA fans complained to EA because they felt cheated for buying their stuff.

yea
keep releasing sports games thats the exact same for the year before except for the new player >.>

only things I enjoy from EA now is burnout, and even that there starting to screw up a little, burnout 5 better be good ...
also Black, was different, I would like to see many a sequel to that