The console race is over, lets face it. There's no hope for the other consoles anymore. With the casuals in Nintendo's pockets alreadya nd assured for the rest of the gen, and with 3rd party devs starting to release quality games for the Wii the Wii already wins.
3rd party devs will be very reluctant now when thinking about developing a multimillion huge budget game for the HD's seeing that a bomb could mean bankruptcy in this times of crisis and when banks are refusing to give out loans. At least if the game is badly acclaimed by the critics, the game could potentially sell on the Wii because of the casual audience. If a game gets bad reviews it bombs badly on the HD cnsoles, there's no intermediate point here. What's more likely, a dev to risk itself on the Wii or on the HD consoles now?







