[QUOTE="osan0"] i disagree jet. a game doesent have to sell as well on the wii compared to the other platforms since it is cheaper to make games for it (not dirt cheap mind...were still talking between 8 and 15 million per game roughly). at the mo the userbase is still to small for devs to consider moving their majors over to the wii. however if sales keep going the way there going then wii is just going to get more and more tempting for them. it could become a case of wii being the primary platform and the devs just up the graphics and change the controls for the 360,ps3,PC versions. its what they did last gen. PS2 was the main platform due to its huge market share (it was also technically inferior so it was easier to get the game running on the other consoles). games would then just be plonked onto the GC and xbox....maybe with a few enhancments here and there. theres nothing to stop them doing it again.
still its a long race. were in for some interesting times.
jet052006
Well the Difference between the ps2, and xbox are not even close to the difference between the Wii, and (xbox 360, ps3)I wouldnt be using them to compare the the situation we have now. I doubt we will see games that are created on the Wii then upgraded to be put on the xbox360, or ps3. It would be much more efficient, and easierto create a game for the PS3 or xbox 360,and downgrade it to the Wii.
i know the hardware gap is far bigger this time but that really doesent mean very much from a business perspective imho. assuming the wii takes a majority market share and assuming that 3rd parties see even more action on the wii in terms of sales (which are big assumption at the mo) it will become top priority for the publishers. at the end of the day it all boils down to money. cheaper dev costs combined with a bigger userbase makes CEOs eyes go all googely.
also getting a 360 or PS3 game to the wii would be a mommoth task. alot of the code written for those platforms has to go out the window. even the shader code goes...the wii uses a different tech called TEVs. textures have to be redone so that they take less memory, levels would have to be redesigned so that they can fit. all models have to be simplified and so on. imagine trying to get oblivion onto the wii. the devs would basically have to rebuild the entire game using morrowinds engine. a massive job. it took capcom a year to get RE4 up and running on the PS2 since they had to try and figure out what to cut back on.
in contrast its alot easier to go up. all the tech in the wii can be used on the 360 and PS3 (hell they could probably emulate wii games from a processing standpoint to be honest). its just a case of adding the details to the models and textures and plonking in some extra special effects n stuff. they dont need to worry about level design, they might need to make some adjustments to the engine so that it takes advantage of the extra horsepower but nothing major and controls would obhiously need a reconfig. basically anything developed on the wii would work on the 360 and PS3 from a technical standpoint (sans a few adjustments to the code due to different hardware n compilers n stuff). it doesent work the other way.
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