I often read on this site that wii multiplat games aren't good because they're port of the ps2 version. But let's imagine that the ps2 stops selling tomorrow, do you think that third parties will develop a specific version of their game for the wii or will they just stay on ps360? My guess is that they're gonna skip the wii to focus on hd system. Indeed, I dunno if it worth it to develop a new engine for the wii when the third parties software sales are pretty bad (last one = quantum of solace). Of course, big games like fifa, pes, madden will always have a wii version, but what for the others?

I think they will in general continue to do what they are doing now which is ignore the Wii.

The Wii has far lower development costs, and sells the same amount of software as Ps3 according to VGChartz. If you look up Nintendo and Sony's reports however, you can see that it is actually far greater on the Wii (ala, about 1/3 bigger), and that the Wii is roughly X360 size (slightly smaller). This is despite the Wii having a far lower general quality of 3rd party games than the Ps3 or X360.

So I see no reason to skip the Wii. All consoles sell (about) equal amount of 3rd party, and Wii costs less than half to develop for. But, you can make a game for both Ps3 and X360 (that is the same game), but that needs a different version for Wii.

I believe that the situation is so, that by developing for Wii, you will in the long run see a slightly higher profit, but you also have a higher change of a disaster.

Speaking of Disasters, you still haven't replied to my reply to you in the Disaster: Day of Crisis - Sales  thread.

Considering how many more Wii sales will come from the PS2 dying... No.


I mean it would be no under any circumstance, but no especially under the one you present.

When PS2 will die completely that will happen because of the Wii growth. PS2 could of coexisted with PS360 much longer without the Wii in the market.

PS2 will not die only because the players are dropping it but also because the developers will soon drop it in order to make more money on the Wii.

Well you are already proven wrong because their are already a lot of 3d party games that will come on the Wii and have no PS2 version;...But yeah some devs are maybe going to skip he Wii. I really can't tell.

By the time PS2 is dead, it will be like what, 2010-2011? :P

When you compare third party support on the Wii from 2007 to 2008 you will notice that there was a (fairly) dramatic increase in the quantity and quality of games released. Looking into 2009 there appears to be a larger jump in the quantity of quality titles, and (at this point in time) I don't think that it is unrealistic to say that this trend may continue throughout the Wii's life.

Third parties publishers have not produced that many games for the Wii so far because they were heavily supporting the PS2 and PSP, and they had jumped head first into HD development, and they really didn't have any resources to devote to Wii development. As these publishers have been scaling back on PS2 and PSP development they have been reallocating resources towards the Wii which is starting to show up in the Wii's software line-up.

Had third party publishers planned to "Skip" the Wii, these developers would have been allocated directly to HD projects ... Correct me if I'm wrong but, from what I have seen, it appears that the development teams that are working on HD projects today are (for the most part) the same development teams that were working on games for these systems since before they launched.