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Here is an article about Fils-Aime talking developer response to the Wii's success. Here's a comment from him: “Every publisher has either made the decision and stated it publicly or made the decision and not stated it publicly, but the amount of resource shift has been tremendous,” This is something that I've spoke of in the past. I think the most important numbers in this industry are the ones that are fact. despite how the systems might sell in the future the 3rd parties have to answer to stock holders and therefore have to bet on the proven horse, and so far it's been the Wii with dramatic sales so far. Being that many developers have yet to jump in Nintendo's new pool I think the Wii is going to have the most newly announced titles for the rest of 2007. Making 2008 interesting as it is a year that ps3's exclusive should be in full stride, it will be interesting to see how many 3rd Party exclusive can Nintendo lock, and just how much ammunition will they be working with for next year.(I hope they start pushing developer tools as hard has Sony and Microsoft have.) I think this also goes for Nintendo itself. There has to be alot of internal pressure to creat more content for the DS then the Wii when the return has been so amazing for the portable system. But as the Wii is continuing to prove itself they may start to shift more resources themselves to the console. I think they moved many development houses towards the GBA and DS because of poor Gamecube sales. maybe we'll even see more console developmet from HAL Labrotories. Here is the article: Gamasutra Article