Mars said:
Alot of those titles were just 360 ports costing only 10% of initial production costs, selling 100/200k is pretty good. There is no higher risk then releasing a real game on the wii, Zack/Wiki and No more heros already proved that. Even a great title like Metroid manages only a bit over 1 million and that surely was not a cheep title to make. |
a) developers look at total cost and then how much they get from both 360 + ps3...they have to first build it for 360 before they can pay the 10% extra to put it on ps3...
if it costs them 3x as much to develop a ps360 game than a wii game and the wii has >50% marketshare, then it will be harder to justify developing the game on ps360 instead of wii unless it's in a genre that has hardcore fanatics on ps360 like fps
b) no more heroes has been out in NA for 1 week and there are reports of sell outs everywhere, including Ubisoft's own site...it still hasn't launched in Europe/Others, so not sure how you can say that proved anything until the sales data comes in
c) zack & wiki just came out in europe/others and should have strong legs, so we'll see how it does when all is said and done...
Bets:Missed by 420k I bet leo-j vg$500 that wii will sell 31 million by 7/31/08. Sorry, I don't think he has enough vg$ to make it with all of u that wish you could. Hit, with room to spare I bet kingofwale a 1-week ban that wii Americas ltd sales>360 Americas ltd sales as of the numbers for week ending 7/05/08 (using vgchartz homepage #s)
Predictions:
Wii will sell 18-20mil by 12/31/07 CHECKWii will sell 45mil+ WW by 12/31/08Wii will surpass PS2 sales WW by 11/17/11 (5yr anniversary)Wii Fit will hit 12mil sales in 2009MKWii+SSBB+Wii Fit+SMG > 50 mil sales by 2010 > gta4+mgs+gt5+ff13+haze+lbp