2007 is now settled - will 2008 be any different?

[robjoh]

MikeB said:
@ robjoh

The DS is in Japan the main gaming plattform and thus is limiting the appeal for the Wii, PS3 and Xbox360

Many Japanese have relatively small homes, the Japanese are playing mobile phone games en masse compared to the rest of the world as well. I doubt if there was no DS this would much affect PS3 sales.

 So you are actualy saying that if DS didn't exist there wouldn't be more japanese centric software (JRPG etc) on either Wii or PS3that could pull sales. What would all the devs that make DS games today do? I personally must say that I think excluding DS and claiming that the low sales for the PS3 is only affected by the size of the PS3 is odd.

 Even if that is the case, PS3 and Wii is loosing development time to the DS/ mobile games/ PSP which means less japanese games which in turns leads to the question why should japanes buy a PS3 or a Wii? The DS is dominating Japan, if that is because of the size of the homes or not doesn't matter it affects the overall consol base.