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.

I think this is a solid point, Windbane, but I think it heavily favors the 360 over the PS3. Simple question -- why didn't you list the PS3's 3rd party million selling titles? That certainly would have bolstered your position. Answer -- because it looks like this:

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So while I agree that 3rd party developers can make a living off graphically intense, hardcore games made for the 360/PS3/PC, it's important to note that it's the 360 that's doing most of the heavy lifting there :p