The problem and main difference is that im not hoping, the games are announced, exist and have official release dates. Tatsunoko comes in 3 months, Dead Space and Darkside Chronicles in 2, Metroid another M in 2k10,Mario, and so forth(and they arent really low budget either).Im not "hoping" for games to magically appear.Well cooking mama sold a lot more than terminator salvation for HD and made lots of more profits with an even smaller fraction of its cost.The success of one game, which isnt particularly bad mind you, or one genre, never stopped developers to do other genres in any console. Just because wii is a metaconsole with different markets inside it, doesnt mean is worthless to devote to production of other types of games. As far as i know, Ubisoft and their red steel arent from japan, nor EA games with tiger woods, but i might be wrong. Otherwise, nintendo and every one should be doing their cooking mamas , which they really arent.And not because its not profitable, but because they are targetting other markets within the install base, because the market for cooking mamas games arent really that big, after all,900 k sales of cooking mama sales arent as good as 17 mil sales of Mario kart(another good game), or even 1.3 mil sales of COD WAW.

And cooking mama also retails for a very low price.It really doesnt makes that much of a profit in comparison, since it also sells for a fraction of a retail game.

As the wii market grows and grows, the share within it of "core gamers" increases ,and turns into a much more tempting area for developers to invest in high budget productions, making it more likely.Even if it were just 30% of whole wii market, that 30% alone is as big as the full PS3 install base.

And if you ask me, i will get DQX as im a fan of dragon quest games, and enjoy an AAA production myself.If RE5 ,SF4 come, fine by me.

@ intro94

You win. Wii is perfect to make a profit on low budget games. HD consoles are best for selling quality games. I'm glad we got that out of the way.

fine.just remember than i dont share your idea that budget equals quality.Nor that i think that Mario Galaxy is a low budget game .If you want to make it >HD consoles and PC usually targeted for high budget games, sure im all for that.

@ mjc2021,

Do you honestly think that a games budget is the primary factor in its quality? Truly?

Have you ever seen the movie Waterworld, or played the game Daikatana? Two widely used examples of large budget failures.

Give me ultra low-budget World of Goo anyday over your $15M copy-cat been-there-done-that generic FPSers that the PS3 is known for ;)

And many don't know how much some games actually cost.

There are plenty of low budget games I enjoy and I purchase some on XBLA. But my favorite games happen to be more expensive and ambitious projects.

well there are mid budgets and there are tiny budgets. The budge of lets say Overlords Dark legends its not the same as the average wiiware ,psn game.

Edit: Also the Wii has a userbase 8 times larger than the 360 in Japan. I would assume the Wii would crush the 360 in software sales all the time.