First sales were slowing, and now they're losing support? It's just one thing after another with them, isn't it?
Here's the details from the survey, courtesy of GameSpot:
Snippets released today from a Game Developer Research survey indicate that development for the Wii has declined in the last year. The firm polled more than 800 members of the development community about which platforms they were working on, among other topics.
Roughly 41 percent of the respondents said they made games for consoles, with 30 percent of them working on the Wii. That's down from the 42 percent of console developers who said they made Wii games last year.
One possible warning sign of that decline came last month, when Ubisoft said it was refocusing resources on making games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Some 69 percent of console developers reported making games for the Xbox 360, with 61 percent working on the PlayStation 3. Both of those figures were in line with console developers' responses from the previous year's survey.
So what do you think of this? Think this was caused by the constantly low sales of thrid-party games? Or is it something else entirely?
Personally, I think the low sales of third-party titles are the culpirt. I mean, if your games aren't selling well on a particular system, then why continue to make games for it? Makes sense when you think about it.