Wii game budgets 1/4 of HD budgets according to EA

[mike_intellivision]

Groucho said:

 

  SMG at $16-17M is above that $15M line, and its a quality game -- as I've been saying all along, it has nothing to do with the platform, and everything to do with investment.  As a general rule, and I don't know how many times I have to state it, Wii games are cheap because they suck.  And, conversely, as a general rule, Wii games suck, because they are cheap.  Wii games that don't suck, are, outside of being really rare and almost all 1st party, almost universally as pricey as HD games to make. 

 

SMG and GTA IV have the highest average critic scores this generation.

Groucho says SMG cost $16M-$17M

It is accepted that GTA IV cost $100M

http://www.google.com/search?q=gta+iv+development+costs&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

So development for the highest end games are 6x on the PS3/Xbox 360 than for the Wii.

And SMG would be below a variety of big name games, from FF7 to Killzone.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=325745

Finally, I agree that cheaply made games are generally bad.  But price -- nor cost -- do not always reflect quality.

 

Mike from Morgantown