Japanese companies defecting to the 360

[Paco]

What, the old "consoles don't compete with eachother" stuff? Never has been true, whether it's Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony that's trying to say it...

I know that all three companies act like the Wii isn't competition for the other two, but by virtue of being a console it is. This is a major console, not a handheld (which are competition too, by the way, but slightly different because of the differences between the major console and handheld markets)... yeah, a slightly-cheaper-to-develop-for competitior, but definitely one, no question.



This doesn't matter. If a console is successful enough, hard development will be forgotten; if it fails, easy development won't help.

PS2, Xbox, and GC are non-factors. They are on the way out. They are not included in the life cycle of next-generation consoles.

I don't agree. Different ballpark...

It matters, or maybe you forgot how so many companies defected to the Playstation due to Sega's nightmare of a development environment for the Saturn, and I even heard that N64 wasn't the most friendly. With development cost climbing more and more you can bet that developers will look to the platform to cut costs and make the maximum profit.