Development will favour PS3 in 2009, says Yoshida PART 1

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ChronotriggerJM said:

bardicverse said:
Developers migrate to the systems with the larger share of the market. Its the most basic thing you need to know about the industry. Any claims that negate that are invalid.

I would think they would go to the system where they would sell the most software :P The Wii doesn't seem to be getting all that much as of recently ><

 

Well you are mostly right - they go to the platform where they have the biggest potential for sales, which is the system that has the highest userbase, aka market share. These statements have been said to death, but I'll briefly reiterate - it takes a few years to get a game to market. Games that are released this year started development at least 2 years ago. Studios that have shifted resources to Wii development last year and this year won't get their games to market until 2009/2010. Take MGS4 for example - they started development for the title before the PS3 was even launched, and it just came out recently. So, the studios that realized the Wii actually is a viable platform won't have games released at least for a year or 2, thus the lull this year. Only developers who  are making clones (madden, guitar hero, etc) can put out 1 year turnaround on games. All the other games coming out this year are either small casual games (easy development) or studios who decided to support the Wii before the system was launched.