albionus on 18 May 2007
| Erik Aston said: Just watch. One major franchise after another is going to have dissappointing sales on those systems. They simply cannot sell as much as they did last gen on more expensive systems while Wii and DS are the talk of the gaming world. Meanwhile a whole stack of Nintendo-published games will rewrite the top 10 all-time worldwide software shipments list on this site. Third parties can either develop for Wii and DS, or be marginalized on marginalized systems. |
I wouldn't yet declare game over just yet for the 360 (the PS3 is very close to being another matter) but I do agree that this year's crop of major non-Wii games will be make or break for the HD systems. There are a lot of major games hitting the 360 this fall but can a system with only 10-12 million users support all of them? Is it possible for that small of a base to support so many 3rd parties especially with MS reinvigorating its 1st party line up? I'll certainly be watching.
