"That's exactly what 3rd parties have been doing all this time, with the X360 and PS3, and now they're ready. They already had single-threaded engines with the Wii, from the GameCube era, and the revenue from a Wii game wasn't enough to justify even the lessened expense of reusing what they had."
That's bull. If they had ready engines, they should have been making lots of games to take advantage of them, not just one or two that no one cared for. That's how the revenue falls. Not just the single game being mediocre, but not enough other games to build up a brand.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs