Today Sega presented it's upcoming flagship titles to the public in Japan. Executive Officer of SEGA Japan, Kawagoe Takayuki, said that "overall it [2008] was a difficult year [for Sega]" and that they were definitely affected by the global economic recession.

However he also mentioned that Sega were encouraged by the sales of PlayStation 3 exclusive, Yakuza 3, and PSP exclusive, Phantasy Star Portable. Both of which achieved half a million units in Japan alone.

Takayuki went on to say that "due to the success of these titles, Sega wish to bring excitement to gamers with more quality titles." He then went on to announce Bayonetta and End Of Eternity for PS3 and Xbox 360 and Puyo Puyo 7 for the DS (releasing July 30), Wii and PSP (releasing Winter 2009).

http://www.ps3center.net/news/2725/sega-encouraged-by-yakuza-3-sales/

I was hoping he would rather announce EU/US release of Yakuza 3 :D

Encouraged to localize it for us, I hope.

I agree :)

Encouraged by 500,000 on HD platforms eh? So that accounts to ~300,000 on Wii? Hmmmm...

Nice!

fixed..

I want to make a safe assumtion about House of the Dead : Overkill; if 500,000 seem "encouraging" on a HD platform, that means an undeniably cheaper Wii game would require ~300,000, right?

@bbsin

PS3 is a HD platform right? Porting to the other twin can't add too much extra cost. Therefore, a Wii game that costs at least half that cost should require half the sales.

The architecture of the 360 and PS3 have been regarded as "very different" by many devs already. It's common knowledge that it's not simple or cheap to port titles inbetween the PS3/360. Anyways, that's beside the point, I was simply pointing out that Yakuza 3 sold 500,000 on ONE hd platform, not more.

As for your theory... I don't quite get it. Are you trying to say that Wii owners (aswell as devs) would spend their resources on low end ports of "HD" platform games for profit rather than make very profitable unique titles such as No More Heros and Madworld?

I don't think it's as clean cut as you believe sir, there's just too many variables. But on the other hand, if you're trying to say that Wii games are cheaper to develop and require less sales to profit than HD consoles, then I do agree with you.