Sony tie ratio for third parties is generally better. Short of having twice as many consoles, Nintendo can't compete in that respect.
They already have twice as many consols, and the gap is growing. Not only that I belive that one 3rd party company will find it self making a lot of money on the Wii, Sega. I have a small felling that most of the Sega fans will find themselves owning a Wii because of Nights, Sonic and so on.
NPD definitely looks ugly, but it's way too early for Sony to be concerned.
To early? The weekly sales is going down and that is with a game that many on this forum stated would increase the sales, Motorstorm. So far it seems that Sonys first party offereings isn't enough to make people buy their system.
Sony continues to have major exclusives. I do think the best strategy, unless you're being paid by Sony in Microsoft in some form, is to do PS3/360 games, and no doubt many will do that. Porting from PS3 to 360 costs maybe 10-20% of the original investment, so it's definitely worthwhile, regardless of userbase.
And ports from a cheaper system or too a cheaper system will help PS3 in what way?
DS had a much easier time reaching the level it's reached (in Japan) than Wii will. Nintendo has monopolized the portable market for 18 years.
DS has according to Media Creat data already sold more than GBA LTD. It keeps selling about 100k a week and we have PSP around 5 millions. How do you explain that the userbase seems to have increased that much?
When it comes to get Wii up to DS levels I have never stated that it would be easy, what I have stated is that you argument seems to be a bit flawed when you first state that even DS level of succes makes the Wii a bad choice. Then when I state that 3rd party offerings is selling really well on DS you change you mind and says that it is only because of the big userbase.
We can't say for sure what is happening in Japan this year, but for the moment we have can watch the number and watch what games is coming out. Those two can then give us an idea how the sales will look. PS3 has no Japan centric games coming out for the next 3 months that can give a Gundam bump (which was way to low bump). PS3 also has decilining sales number last media create week showed that PS3 sold 12k. Wii has brain training, Dragon Quest Swords and Paper Mario at least. Plus it is still selling out (last week MC number 75k). If we assume that Wii will sell with an avarage of 50k and PS3 a 15k avarage, Wii will have lead of 1.8 million in week 32. If PS3 sales continue to deciline and Wii gets higer shipments we could find us with and even bigger lead. If PS3 doesn't start selling soon we will find that Wii might have taken a such a big lead that we are talking about a 3:1 lead in december. (all number used here is Media Create numbers)
Third parties will evaluate their future exclusives on the basis of how their initial ones perform. If MGS4 bombs, they may well port it to 360, and not bother with MGS5 on PS3.
Yes of course they will be, that doesn't answer why 6.5 million Wii users and growing is a bad choice to support meanwhile 3.2 million PS3 customers is so much better to devlop for.
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