Wii following in DS´ footsteps when it comes to 3rd parties?

[tuoyo]

My view is it's not.

With the DS the only competition is PSP which Monster Hunter aside does not really sell software. So if third parties want their games to sell on handhelds they have to release their big games on DS.

With the Wii it is competing with 360 and PS3. 360 is a software sales beast and PS3 has been doing ok recently. PS360 are so different from Wii that developers are generally left with the choice of releasing on Wii alone, releasing on PS360 or releasing on WiiPS360 with Wii usually getting a dumbed down version. The options developers have been taking and I expect them to continue taking are to release their big games on PS360 but with sports games, lego series, star wars getting released on WiiPS360.

I don't see this changing at least for the next 2 years by which time the gap between Wii and combined sales of PS360 would be so wide it would make much more sense to just release on Wii (although 3rd parties have shown they don't really seem to have much sense so things might not even change then).