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    Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

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    According to Sony Computer Entertainment America's Rob Dyer, senior vice president of publisher relations, the PS3 has benefited from a widespread change in publisher policy to reduce their support for Nintendo's Wii platform. Instead these resources are being used to create titles for PS3.

    "What publishers have said is they're not going to spend the resources on Wii... In my job, we compete against Microsoft and Nintendo, and we're competing for resources," Dyer told IndustryGamers. "So when I walk into a publisher, I ask, 'Where are you guys pushing your resources?' In the past, it was 'Look how hot the Wii is,' or 'Look how hot the DS is,' and 'We should put resources there.' They did that and realised, 'You know what, third-party product just doesn't sell on that platform.' So now they're taking those resources, coming back to us and saying, 'Sony we're going to be able to provide you with that exclusive content,' or 'We're going to put more engineers on it and figure out to maximize the Blu-ray and get more out of PS3.' That's what we're seeing now."

    Dyer also admitted that it hasn't been a hard sell to get publisher to make the switch - the sales data speaks for itself.
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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    Is this Sony's latest spin on admitting the PS3 is crap to develop for and uses a ton of resources, while developers can knock out the same games more easily on rival systems?

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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    Lets be honest it doesnt take much resources to "develop" for the Wii as the majority of the games are recycled crap from years ago!
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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    Please

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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    Is this Sony's latest spin on admitting the PS3 is crap to develop for and uses a ton of resources, while developers can knock out the same games more easily on rival systems?
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    bang on the money.... sheer Sony Jealousy I'd say.

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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
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    bang on the money.... sheer Sony Jealousy I'd say.
    Pretty much, but this year will be the year of the PS3! Just like last year was going to be, and the year before that, and the year before that.... I've got all the time in the world for Sony, they make great hardware but there've been too many promises and too much posturing and not nearly enough action on their side this console generation.

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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    if they actually use the power of the ps3 they would make some great games , and i cant wait for just cause 2 to come out
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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    I've not followed console sales in a while, but looking at recent numbers, the PS3 has really narrowed it's gap with the 360 by quite a bit. And I think that's whom they really should compete with. The Wii is just different enough to cover a bigger market (with the odd exceptions, sales of Wii = sales of X360+PS3, if VGChartz can be trusted). And PS3 and X360 are similar enough in style/power for most games to be released on both platform. Both platform have their advantages (arguably), for instance Blu-Ray vs XBox Live, and occasionally one game will run better than on one platform than the other. But they are still largely similar, so whoever get the most worthy exclusive titles will probably to eat more market share.

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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    The Wii is a supplementary console.

    It's not designed to take place of the other 2, in terms of market, games, features

    It's why it sell so well, it's a 'non-threatening' console.
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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    Surely they are just still trying to downplay the fact no one likes coding for the PS3?
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    Re: Sony say the Wii's days are numbered, by poaching publishers.

    We have all 3 current consoles at home and their uses differ greatly! The Wii gets switched on to update it so that the blue light doesn't flash. I can't even be bothered to turn off that option in the menus. The PS3 plays blu-ray movies and rarely iplayer. The 360 sometimes gets used for GH/ beatles rock band. I really have found our wii a total waste of money.
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