Sony America’s senior vice president of publisher relations, Rob Dyer, has said that PS3 has benefited from publishers choosing not to spend their resources on Wii.
The last few months have seen several publishers reconsider their support of Wii as mature titles fail to make an impact, while Nintendo’s own first-party titles dominate the market.
Dyer believes that those publishers are now reallocating those resources to PS3.
"What publishers have said is they're not going to spend the resources on Wii,” Dyer told Industry Gamers. “In my job, we compete against Microsoft and Nintendo, and we're competing for resources. 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 realized, '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 added, “It's not a hard story to sell, and they get that. Unless they've got a particular franchise that's worked well on the Wii, you don't see a lot of innovative new IP coming out on that platform.”