Game Devs Migrating Toward iPhone, Away From Wii

A new report by Game Developer Research reveals that the number of developers working on games for the iPhone continues to rise, roughly doubling in number from last year. At the same time, the amount of work done on games for Nintendo's Wii dropped significantly: "Just over 70 percent of developers said they were developing at least one game for PC or Mac (including browser and social games), rising slightly from last year; 41 percent reported working on console games. Within that latter group, Xbox 360 was the most popular system with 69 percent of console developers targeting it, followed by 61 percent for PlayStation 3. While those console figures stayed within a few percent of last year's results, the change in Wii adoption was much more significant: reported developer support for the system dropped from 42 percent to 30 percent of console developers, supporting numerous publishers' claims of a recent softening of the Wii market."

Comments

Re:False assumption?

[Hurricane78]

From what my honest personal experience is, nobody moves away from the Wii, everybody loathes the iPhone, and the whole article is a straight out lie.

Maybe we live in different universes. Or just in different countries.
Here, this “article” is seen an yet another blatantly obvious Apple marketing blob that got on Slashdot.

By the way: Is there any way to filter all Apple-related stories out? (Everything that includes the words “Apple”, “Steve Jobs”, “iPhone”, “iPad”, “OS X“ or “Mac” in the title, text or tags.)
It should work in Thunderbird’s RSS reader too.
Would be much appreciated.

Re:Wii still outsells Iphone; what about Nintendo

[dgatwood]

Okay, that's an extra 20 million. You still lose.

Depends on which iPhone/iPod Touch numbers you believe; I've also seen claims that the iPhone platform is slightly ahead of Wii. Either way, my point was that if your numbers for Wii are right, the Wii platform is not dramatically bigger than the iPhone platform; it's about the same size to within about a month worth of sales.