Third Party Devs have made up their minds about the Wii.

[NJ5]

Procrastinato said:

The "because of HD graphics" is pretty vague statement. Gears 2 cost $10M to develop. Lots of people claim it has some of the X360's best graphics.

Almost every Wii game in existance probably derived from a pre-existing GameCube engine, since the architectures are next to identical, outside of clock -- so how did Gears 2 get so cheap, when its not HD?

Which HD games were on their first HD engine architecture iteration, when you choose to quote their costs?

Gears is the exception... Engine costs = zero (it was already developed and no licensing involved), and it was partly outsourced to Epic China.