Soul Calibur IV announced on 360 and PS3 not on Wii in 2008

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windbane said:

JDWolf36 said:
How does it make any type of sense that if one game is selling better on the Wii as a spin off than on the Xbox360/PS3 main line title that what you should do is keep investing loads into the main title and nothing more into the Wii. What makes sense is taking the third more you spent on that PS3/Xbox360 game investing it into 3 better looking Wii games. Don't understand the argument if people will buy a crappy Wii game just because they are interested in the genre it makes more sense to invest into that genre so you can produce more games, not go ohhh well they buy crap so lets just give them more and more of it. If this worked why does the Xbox360 have any games that look better than Perfect Dark Zero what would be the point it sold a million copies is in their top ten best selling why not make 3 billion more of the same type of game for less than it cost to make a game like Gears of War or Lost Planet people will buy them by this logic.

Geez...so far third parties are doing well on the 360, and there is an equal opportunity for many third party games to do well on the PS3.

Name	Console	Publisher	Japan	America	Others	Total
	Gears of War	Microsoft	0.08	2.76	1.38	4.22
	Call of Duty 2	Activision	0.02	1.39	0.56	1.97
	Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter	Ubisoft	0.02	1.29	0.63	1.94
	Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion	Take 2	0.00	1.13	0.57	1.70
	Madden NFL 07	EA	0.01	1.62	0.04	1.67

 

Notice that 4 of those are third parties and they were all released early on in the 360's life.

 

Compare that to Wii third party games:

Name	Console	Publisher	Japan	America	Others	Total
	Wii Sports	Nintendo	1.67	3.21	1.79	6.67
	Wii Play	Nintendo	1.34	1.24	0.89	3.47
	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess	Nintendo	0.56	1.66	1.02	3.24
	Wario Ware Smooth Moves	Nintendo	0.47	0.55	0.58	1.60
	Super Paper Mario	Nintendo	0.48	0.53	0.00	1.01
	Rayman Raving Rabbids	Ubisoft	0.02	0.58	0.41	1.01
	Red Steel	Ubisoft	0.04	0.45	0.51	1.00

 

That is the complete Wii list. I cut out over two-thirds of the 360 games to sell over 1 million. I'd say it's smarter to release third party games on the PS3, 360, or both.

Actually, that's pretty scary for the 360.  The Wii's top 5 selling games already blow away the 360's with a smaller userbase and a MUCH shorter time on the market.  Also it's important to note that the only 3rd party games that were released with the Wii were average at best, wheras the 360 ones (at least CoD2 and GRAW) were quality games.  It's pretty scary that a game as bad as Red Steel can sell more than half as much as GRAW.  Obviously the Wii isn't the ONLY option developers have, but that doesn't mean it won't end up getting signifficant developer focus, and undoubtedly the majority of exclusives due to it's system specs making it a completely unique development rather than something that can be ported to.  It's already passed the PS3 on exclusives and is gaining on the 360 fast.  This is mostly because the big games developers made are going PS360PC because they have no choice if they want to make a profit.