Squilliam said:
Revenue data is NOT useless! Effectively it tells us the magnitude of the market in question or the proportion of revenue going towards a specific console. So a developer looking at Gamasutra will see that they could either develop a Wii game and target ~30% of the revenue available on consoles or they could target the Xbox 360 and PS3 both for a slice of ~70% of the overall market. Beyond this the comparison gets even more skewed given the fact that many Wii games have to rely on licensed I.P. and a lower than $50 price point which means that they have to keep their fixed costs in check because the margins after Nintendo, third party I.P, retail margins, publishing expenses are taken into account are quite small. However on the other hand the margins on the Xbox 360 and PS3 games are much greater and newly developed I.P. can be sold relatively profitably and with higher margins comes the incentive to advertise and market the title because selling additional copies easily justifies advertisement.
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Are you trying to claim they don't do this on other consoles like literally ALL THE TIME? I've yet to see regular price drops FYI on Wii, no Players Choice like with Gamecube, and there's so many licensed IPs on PS3 and 360 it isn't funny but all consoles rely on that. But you talk about lower than MSRP but PS3 and 360 games often get price drops much quicker than Wii titles, I know cause I shop around a lot looking for deals
The most reasonable argument is the idea that a certain segment has the most money spent towards it, but again you have to look at your profit margins. As I brought up before games are now bringing in more revenue than the movie biz, doesn't mean anything though cause developers aren't making money, the market as a whole isn't ready for high budget titles even at 60 dollar price tags.
Plus again I must call into question the credibility of those pie charts as with the SKUs not being broken down to prove their revenue data is correct, are they breaking down revenues based on many of the sales? Hell I got Red Dead Redemption for 30 dollars when it was normally 60 thats not normal revenues and are these people accounting for that? I find it questionable especially when they say themselves they only patched it together.
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