News \ Publishers are switching to the Wii side

Screen Digest has published its first Games Bulletin report, revealing that games publishers will launch more titles for Wii this Christmas than for any other format.

The report analysed data from all retail releases leading up to Christmas and found 86 titles are scheduled for launch on Wii, 47 on Xbox 360 and only 38 for PlayStation 3.

Furthermore, a quarter of all Wii Christmas releases will be exclusive to the platform, compared to just eight on the Xbox 360 and five on the PS3.

The report states: "Wii is proving attractive to publishers not only because of its rapidly growing installed base, but also thanks to lower development costs and the relative ease of transferring development resources to the platform compared with its 256 bit counterparts. As a result Screen Digest expects that the number of games available for Wii will surpass Xbox 360’s library in early 2008 at current release rates."

Discussing the lack of PlayStation 3 releases, Ed Barton, Screen Digest Games Analyst and author of the first Games Bulletin, said: “While Wii and Xbox 360 are likely to look back on 2007 with some satisfaction, the same cannot be said for PS3. Given the platform’s release schedule this Christmas, it is not a surprise that Sony is focusing on lowering the cost of entry to PS3 platform to maintain parity with its rivals this Christmas.”

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thetooth says:  

yay go nintendo

10 hours ago Above you........arrrrrrr!!!

Elraro says:  

cura said: LOL, sorry but I found that the funniest thing to read. 86 titles... LOL, yeah, and what age groups are those games aimed at? 12 and under? sounds right.
It is actually quite funny that they are trying to make a point but fail miserably in doing so.
The wii has only 1 worthwhile x-mas release... SMG. SSBB has been delayed until January I think. Although for aussies, there is also MP3.
But the 360 has a dozen and even the ps3 has some.
What good is it to have 86games when only .02% are worth buying? Id rather only have 40games released but 30% of them worth owning.
I guess you guys can enjoy Ninja Bread Man and other games of that kind.



I'm inclined to agree. Have you guys seen the games on the Wii's release schedule? It's worse than the flood of aweful "No Frills" games keeping the PS2 still (barely) alive. I'd rather have a handful of worthwhile releases on offer rather than a plethora of suck and fail on offer anytime.

10 hours ago Barcelona, Spain...for the time being.

cura says:  

LOL, sorry but I found that the funniest thing to read. 86 titles... LOL, yeah, and what age groups are those games aimed at? 12 and under? sounds right.
It is actually quite funny that they are trying to make a point but fail miserably in doing so.
The wii has only 1 worthwhile x-mas release... SMG. SSBB has been delayed until January I think. Although for aussies, there is also MP3.
But the 360 has a dozen and even the ps3 has some.
What good is it to have 86games when only .02% are worth buying? Id rather only have 40games released but 30% of them worth owning.
I guess you guys can enjoy Ninja Bread Man and other games of that kind.

1 days ago Sydney

Harlster says:  

They're coming to wii because they realise that we are the best and have the best everything (apart from glitches and graphics), it doesn't supprise me really. Wii number one!!!

1 days ago Melbourne [city of stuff, wooo!]

C_Bear says:  

trinest said: Its good they have returned, but it seems most of it is crap.



Dont forget that ps3 and 360 have just as many crap games available. lol

1 days ago Melbourne, Victoria

Ryguy6329 says:  

86 wow thats alot

1 days ago

TGCMandCo says:  

trinest said: Its good they have returned, but it seems most of it is crap.



From the consumers point of view, yes, but for Nintendo:
Publishers = $$$$

The reason Nintendo fell behind back during N64 was because all the publishers went over to Sony & it's PS. Therefore, we can learn from history that whoever gets the majority in third party published games WINS :P

1 days ago New South Wales

tedbtes says:  

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! . In your face microsoft and sony .
Even if you did ban togethor and make a company called sonysoft you still wouldnt have as any christmass realeases

1 days ago My House,Computer

mariobro94 says:  

GO NINTENDO!!!!

1 days ago Missouri City, Texas

syfox133 says:  

Yay! 86 titles! Nice

1 days ago In the corner of your eye

trinest says:  

Its good they have returned, but it seems most of it is crap.

1 days ago Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia

TGCMandCo says:  

They Have finally returned!

1 days ago New South Wales

meef says:  

Sweet, sorta already figured this out with all the stories on how well wii's selling but yeah great news. A list of the 86 titles would be nice...

1 days ago Launceston

 
 

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