| Geldorn said:
As long as PS3 software sells, third party support won't drop. And since PS3 software sales have only been going up, I'm thinking you should rethink your idea that the only third party support that counts is exclusive games. Besides, stating that all those PS360 games where originally PS3 exclusive is not the same as proving they where. I could just as easilly say the reverse and we'd have no way of telling since most of those games where announced as multiplatform games to begin with.
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It's not a matter of absolute sales, but instead relative sales. It doesn't matter how much software on the PS3 sells; so long as its competition is selling more, the third-party support will go to that competition.
As for your second point, well, you need only a healthy dose of inference. We've already seen the trend in big-name games. Two-thirds of the PS3's "Big Three" exclusives list from 2007 (DMC4, MGS4, FFXIII) are now multiplatform. Suspiciously, most of the HD titles announced in the past year or so have been PS360 titles - and all of those titles will have been in development for at least a year. It's not too hard to infer that, once the Wii inevitably gains 50% marketshare before the end of this year, we'll see third-party support for both HD consoles take a sharp drop - not to zero, mind you, but to a much lower number than it's at now.
Of course, that's not 100% proof, but really, we're already seeing the trend begin.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
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