What if Wii actually ends up in 3rd place?

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noname2200 said:

famousringo said:

noname2200 said:

famousringo said:
1. It will likely still have the privilege of being the most profitable.

2. It will be yet another sign that third party publishers have near-total control of this market.

I disagree with #2 wholeheartedly.

Why? Because the publishers have been earning crap profits?

In small part, but mostly because for a four-year stretch the system was handily thrashing its rivals based almost exclusively on first-party offerings, and I see little to indicate that trend could not have continued if the first-party titles didn't largely vanish overnight.

In quantity sure. But the exclusives themselves never made a splash in the industry, apart from the heavy hitter IPs, thus most of them didn't sell as good as multiplat games in similar genres.