It's over.

[Lord N]

HappySqurriel said:

 

But how many of those PS3 and XBox 360 games have been announced since E3 2006?

 It doesn't matter. They are still better titles than what the Wii is getting.

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.

Too bad that:

-These games have received little to no hype.

-No one has heard of them.

-No one gives a shit about them.

-They will probably be ignored since more of Nintendo's first-party titles will be around by the time they are released.

 

Developers have said that they play to devote more time to the Wii than they did in relation to previous Nintendo consoles, but they never said anything about devoting the bulk of their resources to it, and definitely no the 75% that you've stated in other threads.

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).

 

The Wii is not the PlayStation 2. Even if it does have an install base of 18 million by January 2008, the PS3 would have 9 million and the 360 about 15 million. That is not enough of a margin for devs to put the bulk of their focus on one platform, especially when you consider that there are things that the Wii simply can't do.

Just because it's cheaper to make a game does not automatically make that game more profitable. It doesn't cost Capcom much to make Treasure Island Z or RE4: UC whereas it cost boatloads of money to make DMC4 and RE:5, but which games do you think are going to receive more hype and be more commercially and financially successful? A game like MGS4 will probably outsell Manhunt, FF:CC, and PoP by itself.