I think he already has a Wii.

Konami have hit a sweet spot with their survival horror games, Saw and Homecoming didn't set the charts on fire, but they've come out and said that both franchises on the HD consoles have been profitable (that's why we got a SAW 2). I'm guessing Silent Hill: Downpour is going to be produced at a low cost and so it'll probably be profitable with about 400,000 units sold. It also helps that Downpour is being developed in the Czech Republic by a relatively new team made up of some talented former 2k developers. 

I think one of the largest misconceptions going around on this forum is that if a game is in HD, it's going to have a massive budget and it's going to have to sell a million units, when it's obviously not true. Stupid publishers surrounded by untalented developers are the reasons why some games have over bloated budgets, but are horrible games. Developers like Zombie. Inc, From Software, Epic, Naughty Dog, 4A Games, Sucker Punch, Access Games, Media Molecule and pretty much any mid sized PC developer is making bank on great games, that have pretty low budgets.

That's the exact thought process publishers are going through though. If it's going to cost an extra $50,000 to port a game to the PS3, but it's guaranteed that the port will sell at least 300,000 units, then it'd be more financially viable to create one game and put it on two platforms for a low cost. If they developed the game for the Wii, they'd have to put much more effort into something that they aren't guaranteed to make their money back on, especially if that time and effort could go towards other games.

Your thinking about it from the perspective of a Nintendo fan trying to win an argument, but you should be trying to see it from the perspective of the publisher.

Are you considering its relatively inexpensive to port games between the HD platforms? I mean its not like they build the game from scratch for both consoles. Which is why they share most of their library.

You can't figure this out?

I'm just happy it's coming to the HD's, and the short answer to your Q is, apparently they think it's more profitable...wii isn't exactly a good place to be if you value 3rd party games support sadly looking at the line up this year

Then you combine the PSP and PS2 sales of SM with Wii and it still outsold Homcoming and we're back to square flipping one... See it from the publishers perspective man

As I mentioned before, the PS2 and PSP releases of Shattered Memories were $30.

Homecoming for 360 and PS3 were $60. We don't know how many copies the PC version sold but it was cheaper.

The publisher is going back to HD so that gives you an idea of which was more profitable or has more potential.

*sigh* You know they've been switching back and forth this entire time right?  Climax studios made Origins on PSP and PS2 with meh reception, Double Helix made Homecoming to a meh reception, Climax studios went up to bat again with Shattered Memories on Wii, PS2, and PSP met with really good reception and better sales, and now they're putting Vatra games on Downpour and they specialize in FPS and action games... and have experience on... you guessed it PS3 and 360... it's really a no brainer that the developers are making the games on a platform they're experienced on.

Mainly I don't give a flip if Downpour isn't on Wii, I don't even care about that argument, it's just retarded to go "combined sales of HD platforms!" and then not do it when another game has more sales than even the combined HD sales... as for the whine about PS2 and PSP Shattered Memories was 30 bucks, they also had less work put into them vs the Wii version, even cheaper than Wii to develop on, and PS2 became an open platform not long ago, I'm pretty sure royalty fees are rather slim now-a-days unlike some other consoles I know like Wii, PS3, and 360, add to that PSP royalty fees have gone down the drain since piracy became so bad as Sony lowered them for incentives to publishers, so 30 bucks is easily representative of not only the lesser work applied but also not having to pay as much to Sony for putting it out there and means more money for Konami.

Basically I'm saying you have yet to provide one lick of evidence to prove your case but what I'm stating is common knowledge and sense.  Downpour I'm iffy on trusting since Homecoming wasn't great and was handled by a noobish team and Downpour is being handled by a team that's only other game is an XBL and PSN title, their developers are experienced but the team is new, and I'm not sold from the videos, pictures, and premise so far... not to mention the music...

I doubt the Wii can handle what Vatra is trying to do with the title and no I don't mean "better grafix=better gamez!!1LOL". I thought Shattered Memories was fantastic, well story wise anyway. Downpour promises large and sandbox-y environments reminiscent of the earlier Silent hill games that rewards exploration. It was a good decision to keep it on the PS360 if you ask me. I'm surprised that they haven't announced a PC version.

This thread is about the Wii and the HD consoles. We aren't discussing how well Shattered Memories sold compared to Homecoming, we are comparing how well the Wii Silent Hill game sold compared to the HD consoles Silent Hill game, that's why I didn't even mention the PC version of Homecoming. I also mentioned why Konami probably finds it far more effortless to just port it between the PS3/360 when you take cost, the studio involved and the territory into consideration (as you mentioned in your most recent post).