Pachter: Epic Mickey will "ultimately come to PS3"

[Reasonable]

bmmb1 said:

Reasonable said:

Well, it might, particularly if sales aren't amazing on Wii and they decide to try and extend sales over two consoles.

Also, nice to see Patcher clearly doesn't know his arse from his elbow when it comes to porting/coding of games.

Unless the title used really low res sources (which would seem unlikely) then just as it isn't that hard to take a PS2 game and produce a nice HD version it really shouldn't be that hard to take a Wii game (which I believe has more power than the PS2) and produce a nice HD version.

Quite the contrary - in the case of this game I believe they will do a port only if it is successful (and someone there even said something to that effect).

If it was a hit that would probably have guaranteed a PS3 port - hence the original quote around that.  But if it doesn't look like it's going to turn a profit on Wii alone, and they calculate a quick port would scrape in enough extra on PS3 then they'd do it for that reason, too.  I'm only speaking about the latter.

Again, though, as with Alan Wake and a few other recent exclusives, I have to say that going with Wii only seems in hindsight to have been a potentially poor choice.  They would have known about Move in enough time to put it out on both platforms at once and give themselves a bigger base.  I know on paper the Wii should easily be able to carry a title like this, but it would have been so easy for them to go PS3/Wii and further de-risk the title's launch.