After today's comments from Hirai (which was a nice virtual slap to any and all PS3 developers out there) and the simple fact a majority of 3rd party games suck at retail plus the very high investment to develop on the system one question, why? I can think of very little, and I own a PS3.

as long as they can easily port 360 games to the ps3, they are gonna keep doing it

emo much?

to create the best game possible, easy nuf.

PS3 and 360 are dependent on each to compete with the Wii. In the unlikely event that the PS3 is discontinued early, it would be very interesting to see how the 360 alone could compete with the Wii.

That said, the Wii is still gaining market share which can only mean it will get more attention from developers, but it's still unclear how much (and how many developers will go bankrupt in the meantime).

Because it's still has a 21.1% slice of the marketshare?

Because almost all 3rd party HD titles can be released on both the 360 and PS3, thereby almost doubling potential sales for little cost?

Microsoft still has the PC platform and they always have the option of slapping money on the table for a PS3 -> Xbox 360 trade in deal.

Should that happen (highly unlikely), it would certainly help whichever of the two consoles that continues... but the single would have no chance of getting near what the two together can do, and thus it would be like the N64 (360 or PS3) going against the PS1. (Wii) Unlike what we have now, which is more like the Megadrive (PS3+360) versus the SNES (Wii)

lol flamebait. A majority of 3rd party games suck at retail??? If you are a third-party developer you have three possibilities

a) you develop for the Wii and you better hit the taste of the Wii community else you will go down in flames
b) you develop for 26m 360
c) you develop for 20m PS3
d) you develop for 46m PS360 and invest 10% more than in a 360 or PS3 exclusive. (and most multiplatform games sell just as well on PS3 and 360 if they are released simultaneously)

Hard choice. Oh and nobody cares about a "slap in the face" if they make a multimillion dollar decision.

A few low-key Japanese developement projects will be exclusive to PS3, which will eventually come to the USA. Stuff like Blazblue, Cross Edge, Disgaea 3 etc. We'll see a few of these every year but er, that's gonna be it for non-Sony influenced exclusives.

Other then that, everything is going to be PS360, no ones going to support either platform exclusively without Microsoft or Sony giving them a reason to.

The major publishers seem happy at the moment to keep their higher tier teams on PS360 developement and their more inexperienced teams on the Wii. I honstly don't see that changing in the west, not so sure about Japan though.