Tinn

#2. Good point, PS3 will outsell others by 2011, that's about the end of this coming generation.

Let's just say, the most graphically powerful consoles in history never made their generation's best seller. In fact the best selling machine usually had the worst graphics. Clear enough?

Lots of 3rd party games doesn't boom any console's initial sales. It's only the end product because developers find out who got the most consoles sold. It's a business afterall. 3rd party games can only carry the console to victory from about the mid-life span, say 2008 for this gen.

The bottom line is: if the console sells better than the others, 3rd party games come along. And what makes the console sells better? Francise games, public/media hype (which is kind of unpredictable). Wii seems to be on the right track so far, and DS already did.

Low price doesn't seems to be a big factor; look at the poor Cube. But high price tag like PS3 definitely is a barrier.

And why do ppl keep saying Wii doesn't have enough 3rd party support? It'll have more than 20 games + virtual console games by Christmas, that's not much less than PS3 (30 launch games?). And I'll bet Wii's launch games' quality will be much better than PS3's.

Let's see how many 3rd party games will Wii has by 2008 :)