libellule said: Third parties are jumping on Xbox360 And PS3 currently, not on Nintendo.
For the end of 2007, most video game that are coming will be released on PS3 or/and on Xbox360. Only a little part will reach the Wii.
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Well I must say that I disagree here a little bit:
First there isn't many 3rd parties that is jumping on the PS3 for the moment. Those games that is in production has been there since the launch. They are just taking a hell of a lot of time to get ready. Some of the exclusive games have become multiplate and one game have been cancelled for the PS3 and moved to Wii (Katamari sp?). Not only that we have some studios that is backing the Wii, Sega is there with more exclusivs than to the rest. There has also been several rumors that other studios is shifting focus to the Wii. We had a thread going on about just that last month.
Second: I think that everyone knows that 3rd parties were taken by surprise with the good sales of the Wii, so it is not totally strange that there is coming more games to the PS3 and xbox360. That doesn't mean that Wii will have a bad gaming line up for this autum.
Then I would like to comment the thing about cinematic games, I agree on that xbox360 and PS3 would most probarbly have more cinematic games than Wii, but does that mean that Wii wont have any games at all? Let us see, for this autum we have:
Metroid Prime 3: I am for the moment replaying MP1 and it is a beutiful game with good music and a good story.
Resident Evil UC: The vidoes that so far has been released indicates that it will be a nice looking game, if it gets a good autmosphere it could be a great game.
No more heroes: Might not be the most beautiful game, but it has a nice style and could possible be able to win some hardcore fans hearts.
At least three possible good games might get some "cinimatic" game fans to buy a Wii. Of course I am not saying that they will take all the PS2 users, but I wouldn't say that Wii wouldn't be able to steal some of them. In Japan I am actually convinced that PS3 will have maximum 50% of the PS2 userbase. Of course that doesn't mean that it is the cinematic gamers that moves to Wii, but it is quit clear that the PS2 crowd is very large and therefore have a wide range of games.
The last years hardware sales in Europe have not been fueled by cinematic games, they have been fueled by party games: guitar Hero, buzz and singstar is selling very well in EU. So is Nintendodogs and brain age (or training never remember which one), therefore we might conclude that the cinematic market is smaller than you are saying.