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With all of the announcements and unveilings of E3 2007 a growing memory, the aftermath of the video game industry’s biggest showcase has made the Exclusive Arms Race enter a brave new world.

The king is dead! Long live the Wii!

Yes, the Xbox 360 is no longer the leader in exclusive titles for the first time since we began tracking them in October of 2006. Nintendo’s little white behemoth has pulled ahead after a stellar E3 where nearly every major (and minor) publisher pledged plenty of support for the system.

The strong sales of Nintendo’s console mean it will quickly pass the Xbox 360 in terms of market share. And the system’s lo-fi graphical capabilities will guarantee that the budget releases will continue to flood the system (likely further increasing the quantity of exclusives). But the sheer number of games that are in development for the Wii (even if most are budget titles or minigame compilations) will fuel system sales, which will fuel more budget releases, which will create an endless loop of sales. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata thinks this could push the Wii to even greater sales heights than the PS2.(currently sitting at 120 million sold worldwide and counting). If that happens, expect to see more exclusives that will appeal to a segment of gamer (the so-called “hardcore gamer”) that might currently feel neglected by the Wii.

So live it up Nintendo, you’re sitting pretty as the king of the hill once more. Try to behave this time.

full article w/bar graphs!!!

so i guess we can finally quit whining about 3rd party support...

Who didn't see this one coming.

ummm...MS, Sony, and Everygamer ever pre-launch

six months and 10 million sold makes all the difference huh?

I knew it was coming. Some exclusives look promising enough to be quality titles, as long as more that keeps coming I'll be a very happy gamer.

It's one thing to have games no other console has, but they'd better be high quality ones. I mean we can only take so many more "revamped" ports and mini games.

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I'm not sure if it's fair to say a game is an exclusive or if it's even gonna be released when the publisher is TBA (to be announced), plus everyone else can by the exclusive "Namco Museum Remix" for the Wii, because I'm looking for a bit more substance.

The exclusives that appear to have quality coming out this year are No More Heroes, Zack & Wiki, SoulCalibur Legends, Nitro Bike, Bleach The Shattered Blade to name a few from third parties and of course the big 3 from Nintendo. The point is all the ports and mini-games that will come to Wii there are bound to be the games that will be outshine expectations and turn out great.

There's something about Soul Calibur Legends...I just have a bad feeling about that game. I loved the fighting games, but going on missions with the characters...I just don't know.

I'll keep my fingers crossed and I hope others really like it, but I'm no longer looking forward to that.

I don't think ports and mini games will shine just because they're on the Wii. I think 3rd party publishers are still just being lazy and not giving us Wii owners (myself including) what they deserve.

and im sure if sony were the king you would have the same opinion right gft

im guessing wii will sale to the 200m. its a new way to play. and xbox are such liers.....saying "microsft has the most exclusives"

Agrees that it was easily predictable but nice work Nintendo.

as long as the wii has even nearly as many titles published for it as the 360 and ps3 it should logically have more exclusives. the control schemes of the various consoles should guarantee that.