The market can deceive developers this time. Thinking a game will do as well as it did on the PS2 is not correct. PS2 had a lot of casual gamers, gamers that would buy a lot of games from a lot of genres. Even more if they were popular like GTA.
Now 360 and PS3 dont have many casual gamers + costs this time are too high. So most who bought the game this time are GTA fans.
Developers make assumptions that later cost them money. Look now at how almost every third party dev is avoiding exclusive games for the HD consoles. The next big step would be to try and put some big games on the Wii and see how the public reacts. There's some companies that are doing it already, and I guess that with proper advertising any game can sell shitloads on the Wii.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
