The answer to your questions is easy. 100+ PS2 sold. Microsoft sold 30 million original xbox. they have currently sold only about 10 million 360. That means that 20 million of the Xbox customers haven't upgraded eventhough the xbox is no longer supported. This is a bad sign. I mean what are they waiting for?
Meanwhile the PS2 that is still supported customer base haven't decided to upgrade yet. but since the PS1 had the same. The exact same slow transition from PS1 to PS2. Many developers feel that PS3 will very likely exhibit the same trend. So to be honest the system war isn't over. there are 120 million players out there that haven't decided to go next gen yet. Majority of them are playing God of War 2. Next Year God of War 3 comes to PS3. And with more Titles coming out for PS3, Free online, Home and other features. Many 3rd party developers are banking on the champ.
As for Nintendo. they were the king of vaporware. They always promised things that never came about. I had a Nintendo followed by SuperNintendo. All my friends had Genesis. When CD games were getting popular Nintendo Power promised CD would plug into the SuperNintendo. But it never happened. They again promised the Hdd for the N64 but by that time I was finished with Nintendo's lies.
As for 3rd parties like ubisoft not trying to make good ports. Are you off your tree? What company waste money by making a port they "purposely" made inferior? Making ports for the wii is hard. It requires a total different type of programming. its not just a port but a whole new game due to the controls. But many developers say that are working hard to develop better games for the wii. (June issue of Game Informer) As for SquareEnix. Ask yourself. your going to make a rpg with one disc then make a port with 3 or more disc? That's not SquareEnix fault that Xbox decided not to make the HD Dvd the game format. Microsoft decided to do that all on their own. And as games get bigger and bigger than 8 gigs. More 3rd Parties will have to make Multi disc games which cut into the profits. Then you'll complain with they start to charge you more for ports.
yeah there are just as many 360 games as the PS3 in its 1st year. But Microsoft didn't give its customers a choice. They cancelled the Xbox and stop all support of the system. Microsoft was telling customer to upgrade now. After only 5 years? Many had bought an Xbox just the previous year and bang no new games. Get a 360! Sony is still supporting the PS2 customers with titles like God of War 2,Bully, FF12 and more to come. Cause Sony says they make a system to last 10 years. They just stopped production of the PS1 after 11 years. All the developers don't have the problems that the Xbox 360 is giving them.
1) not all of the 10 million xbox 360 users have a hdd. (this makes it harder to program for the Xbox 360 as stated by GTA 4 programmers)
2) Limit of 8gig with DVD game format. (Multi Disc? or Lost of levels like PS2 vs Xbox?)
3) No HDMI for the first two model of Xbox 360 (No true 1080p which in the future will be the format of many games)
These are the reasons developers are sticking by Sony. Sure some have taking exclusive off the table. That's cause the main reason for 3rd devs are in the business is to make money. So I too would make games for 360. The more I sell the better my profits. As for the games being harder to develop for PS3. many developers said that both systems have their pros and cons. but the reason I gave above aren't software related by hardware and that something programming can't overcome.
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