Ok, I agree that the Wii is a seperate market...but that doesnt change the fact that the vast majority of licenced games mostly aimed at kids are now aimed at the Wii rather than the 360 or PS3 because it is vastly cheaper to work on and it is more popular.
When you say licensed do you mean like the ones based of kids movies and cartoons? Because those are all going on all three (four if you count the PS2, six if you count the portables) systems.
You're all talking about 3rd party as in the major 3rd party publishers, Im talking about the lesser ones, the ones the churned out the hundreds of millions of awful games for the PS1 and PS2. Like it or not, some of these games do sell.
But the thing is they didn't do anything great for the PS1 or PS2. They are an almost a non-factor and now with Wii-Ware and Sony allowing PSN titles to be independently published they will be even less effective. Now if one of these small companies decided to take a risk and go for a blockbuster, then it would be a big deal.
Im not saying EA or any of the other larger companies dont or wont go multiplatform, most of them already have been doing for the past 10 years or more.
It isn't the fact that companies are multiplatform that is the attention grabber, because that is nothing new. It is the fact that exclusive titles created by third-parties are becoming fewer and fewer, and long-standing exclusives are now going multiplatform. Final Fantasy XIII and other PS3 360 titles would not likely work on the Wii. It is these blockbusters that are the concern.
Oh, and the DS dominates its market, its not really making a seperate one,
It does both. Brain Age is not stealing sales from Chains of Olympus. The popularity of the DS is because it is relevant for both hardcore and casual gamers.
Nintendo has been absolutely brilliant with the DS and making it interact with the Wii was a great move. Now if only the rest of the Wii's communications abilities were there.
its the fact that the PSP has absolutely nothing. The only reason its still around is because of its excellent multimedia capablities and the firmware hacks. I dont think the PSP can even be considered to be in the same market, its not really a portable console, at least, its not making money from that. The DS hasnt done anything to move away from the standard market, its the competition that have.
You must be using a different PSP than me. I have four games on UMD, one downloaded, and eight official PS1 ports. I am also wanting to buy two more games on UMD sometime in the near future.
And I have none of those peripherals that are available in the rest of the world. I only truly used its multimedia abilities to play movies on my Hawaii trip and then to use it as a portable slideshow viewer so friends and family could see my Hawaii pictures.
The PSP has plenty of gaming potential, which is only bigger with Remote Play and its own PSN Store.
All that said though, once we get the peripherals here in the US it will be a much more well-rounded system and have plenty of features and content to make it useful for everything.
Keep in mind some of those cheap games are crappy.
Fixed that for ya.
