>Wii audience probably wouldn't want GT, maybe a select few...but if that wanted it, they would have got a PS3 ;)

I don't know... with the best racing game on that console being ExcitTruck... or "Cars". ;)

I don't think they'd dislike GT that much.

^lol

all i'm trying to say is that certain won't sell on certain consoles, because said consoles target different people. What IF Carnival Games went to PS3?????

Yeah....that'd be a waste

>What IF Carnival Games went to PS3?????

hmm, are you comparing an AAA title going multiplatform, vs Carnival game? Geez. What's next, ChickenShoot coming to 360 as a FPS game. ;)

But if SSBB or MK are coming to PS360, I'd buy it in a heartbreak.

^^ yes... heartbreak should be left for Wii owners, after the announcement, of course

;)

>Not until God of War 3 is announced for the DS.

lol, they can just port the Cellphone version of the game, it uses the same processing power anyway. Maybe add in some Elite Beat gameplay like AC did with its DS game

;). P.S. I'm serious, the cellphone version of the game got really great scores.

I think the problem is that a lot of good selling exclusive games were on the PS2. Look here:

Game (Platform(s)): Total/Combined Sales (relative userbase at release of game)

GTA:SA (PS2): 15 million (80 million)

COD4 (360+PS3): 6.85 million (combined 24 millionish)

FFX (PS2): 7.95 million (20 millionish)

AC (PS3+360): 5.47 million (combined 24 millionish)

SMG (Wii): 5.63 million (around 14 million? Somewhere in there)

Halo 3 (360): 7.19 million (11 million)

The important thing to remember here is that during the PS2 era (and at the release of FFX in most regions), the PS2 was WAY ahead of the GC and Xbox (I believe when the GC and Xbox were launched, the PS2 already had 20 million+ users). So most of PS2s exclusives were obvious. Even if they launched for the other consoles, would enough GC owners buy FFX to make the estimated 10% "porting" cost worth it? Probably not, the userbase wasn't big enough. And the user bases never got big enough. And since each port requires a estimated 10% porting cost, a lot of games were simply not ported over because 40 million Xbox+GC owners weren't even enough to warrent that cost. That and with 3x the install base of Xbox+GC combined, the PS2 sold more than enough software. What's the difference between 15 million GTA:SA and 16 million? Not a lot.

But now we have a different situation. The 360 failed to gain the momentum and lead in it's first year compared to the PS2. So the 360 isn't the "ideal choice" for an exclusive, since the PS3 has half the userbase, and thus could make up a good 35% of sales (i.e.: 360 @ 16.8 million, PS3 @ 9.8 million, combined @ 26.6 million, PS3/combined = 35% of the total userbase, which should mean 35% of the total sales). So it's obvious that multiplats now a days sell better than exlusives do now a days. I won't say how things will end up, to stay on topic, but for now at least, multiplats probably sell better than exclusives, though that's not 100% the case.

To sum it up, for those who don't want to read: Well actually, 100% of the time multiplats will sell better than if it were exlusive, mainly because I'm sure at least 1 person would buy it on each consoles, thus ensuring at least 1 extra unit sold compared to if it were exclusive. The key thing to remember is, "is it worth the cost to get the extra units sold." Right now, it most definitely is. In a few years? Who knows. With the cost of games this generation, I can see how it might always be necessary to make games multiplat.

I'd also like to point out that I didn't actually check any of those "35% of sales should come from the PS3" but after looking at COD4 sales, 32% of it's sales come from the PS3, and 39% of AC sales come from the PS3.

For a Ps3+X360 game, I agree, it is better selling as multi-plat, and most commonly also moneywise. That's unless they get paid to be exclusive. Then it might be fairly even. Porting a Wii game to any other console, or porting to Wii, is a bad idea. The real question is:

Is it better to make an exclusive for Wii, than to make a multiplat for others

For a multi-platform game to be the same quality as an exclusive game, it would need to built ground up for all systems it's released on. This costs a lot of money and time, which is why they port. Exclusive games are generally much higher quality games for this reason and usually sell more, as well as deserve to sell more. There are exceptions to this, but not many.

 This is why there is only 1 multi in that top 50 list.  This has nothing to do with the generation we're in either, as mr wale seems to think.  If anything being exclusive is even more important now, since all 3 consoles have much different strengths than their counterparts.  Games need to be designed specifically for each console if they are  going to avoid being watered down.