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Intrinsic on 07 May 2016
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freebs2 said:
Intrinsic said:

Excuse me? ok. let me understand what you are saying here. Are you saying that third party devs would release games on the Wii, then make a LOT of money from that game, then rather than keep investing in the platform that made them all that money, take it and go make AAA games and release those exclusively on other platforms???

Yes, that's what they did. Since the Wii allowed them to make great returns even without great budgets, it was used as a cash cow for all its lifetime. The scale of production of Wii titles didn't get noticeably greater with time, the scale of Ps3/X360 productions did.

I am sorry but I think the basis of your argument is flawed. 

Third party releases for the Wii dropped and dropped into near bin existence ove rthe course of the consoles life. That simply wouldn't happen if ur theory about higher margins and cash cows are true. Cause the publishers work, is that they go where the money is. If they were making a lot of money from their Wii offerings, they would increase the volume of money invested in the platform knowing fully well they stand to make more and not reduce it. 

So no, what you are saying makes little sense to me.