Why the Wii still won't see so many multiplatforms games

[Ail]

With the Wii success you can expect to see a lot more titles coming to the Wii from third parties.

However I don't think the number of cross platforms HD consoles-Wii is going to increase that much, there will be more but there still be a steady stream of big PS360 games that will not be released on the Wii.

The reason is that first for Western developers Japan is pretty much out of reach ( very few western games have any kind of significant sales in Japan).

So if you look at the worldwide minus Japan you have :

Wii : 20.3 millions

Xbox360+PS3 : 28 millions.

Secondly the HD consoles owner expect their games to be HD and so far aside from games released when the 360 or the PS3 console came out , very few games have come out for the HD consoles that would work too on the previous generation of console ( the exception has been titles like GH3, Iron Man).

By releasing non HD titles on HD consoles the developers risk that their titles will not sell well on those platforms and they still represent the majority of the accessible market for them at this time. By making them HD titles they make them a lot harder if not impossible to be ported to the Wii without major significant changes....

Finally the PS360 market has been the less risky market this gen, very few HD titles with significant development investments and marketing have actually failed, whereas the Wii market is still a bit of an unknown so why take risks when you have a formula that works .

That doesn't mean the Wii will not see a nice stream of third party but those will be exclusives or Wii/PS2.