| Lord N said:
You say this all the time, and you continue to neglect other factors. The Wii will get more support than previous Nintendo consoles because of higher sales, but third-parties are not just going to ignore the PS3 and the 360. The Wii will have exclusives that are specifically designed for it, but it most likely won't see big name, proven franchises. Notice how all of PS3 exclusives that have gone multi-platform have gone to the 360 and not the Wii. The Wii will never see those titles because of its weaker hardware and lack of a decent online service. By what you're saying, a game like VF5 should have been ported to the Wii considering that it's the most popular fighting game in Japan and the Wii is the most popular home system in Japan. Assassin's Creed should have been ported to the Wii as should GTAIV. From Capcom: The Wii gets RE4: UC, the PS3 and 360 get RE5 and DMC4 From Square: The Wii gets FF: Crystal Chronicles, the PS3 gets FFXIII From Konami: The Wii gets Elebits, the PS3 gets MGS4 From Ubisoft: The Wii gets Prince Of Persia: Rival Swords(a remake of a game that everyone has already bought), the PS3 and 360 get Assassin's Creed, Rainbow Six: Vegas, And GRAW 2 From Rockstar: The Wii gets Manhunt 2, the PS3 and 360 gets GTAIV I could go on and on, but I think you see where this is going. The PS3 and 360 will have the bigger titles regardless of the Wii's install base because they simply aren't possible with the latter. |
But how many of those PS3 and XBox 360 games have been announced since E3 2006?
The fact is that (since the Wii and PS3 were released) the Wii has been getting a very steady stream of new game announcements, while the PS3 and XBox 360 mostly get ports from eachother or the PC announced. Certainly, up to this point in time the Wii has not dominated with third party support but (practically) every third party pubisher in the world has claimed in interviews (or in their financial statements) that they plan to devote more support to the Wii and DS in the comming year because of their popularity.
Regardless of whether you understand it or not, you can tell what a publisher will do by looking at the potential return on investment; this is basically true of all public companies. A platform which has dramatically lower development costs, and a dramatically larger userbase will represent a much better return on investment. Does this mean that developers will stop producing games for the PS3 or XBox 360? No, but they will have a much smaller library than the Wii (by a wide margin).
