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HappySqurriel on 15 December 2012
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haxxiy said:
Vinniegambini said:

Industry leaders yes, but are the consumers ready to jump the boat - I'm not so sure. Video games fanatics like us will purchase the latest technology, however will the average consumer who sees a PS3 and Xbox 360 at 199$ compare to 720 and PS4 at over 400$ purchase it? I wouldn't count on it. Furthermore, like I mentioned, I think you will be surprised on how many developers will not go ahead and fully support the next Xbox or PS4 until that user base is installed and it will be up to the first party developers to do the expanding. Wii U, 720 and PS4 will not get much third party support until the 2nd year on the market as they want a return on their investment. Its business. Look at the PS3 when it launched and the games it had. Then compare that to the support the PS2 in comparison to PS3's first year. PS2 was the platform of choice - safer investment, more profitable.

Furthermore, development costs will not be more costly that they are right now for the Wii U due to it being slightly above current gen consoles. Hence, will developers support the next PS4 and 720 with a hefty investment and bill attached to it, or will they support the Wii U which has a lesser investment risk? I think you know the answer.

You are delusional. Nobody is going to support the Wii U because of that. Third-party sales are simply too atrocious for it to be true, always have been, except when Nintendo bullied developers to censor games and release them according to their liking back on the 80's and 90's which didn't leave a good impression I'll tell you that. Either they will develop for iOS and Android, or the 3DS, or the MS/Sony new consoles. There's no middle ground between those.

So, the 1000+ third party Wii games and the 1000+ third party DS games were produced by magical pixies?

At the price most iPhone/Android games sell for the bulk of developers working on HD console, Wii, PSP, and DS games will not be able to turn a profit selling games for those platforms; and with the high development costs of producing graphics that are a "generational leap" over the HD consoles, the average developer will not be able to sell enough games to turn a profit.

These developers are not going to disappear and will likely be allocated in ways you're not considering. Some will (probably) get modest budget increases to produce cross generational games released on the XBox 360, PS3, Wii U, PS4 and XBox 720 (for the first few years at least) while others will probably be allocated to Wii U and 3DS projects.