| Darwinianevolution said: The key for those to arrive to the NX is how easy/cheap is it to port them and how much profit is there to make. From what I've heard, the Wii was very difficult to program for, and yet it got thousands of games, so if it manages to sell well the first year, 3rd parties might consider bringing the bigger games. If the NX is easy and cheap to port games to, I'm sure it at least will get the CoD, FIFAs, AC, Batman... Games from Zenimax and T2 are a different thing altogether. The relation between those and Nintendo is almost nonexistant. Nintendo should make friends with them and try to convince them to port games to the NX. Nintendo might not need GTA, TES or Fallout, but they sure as hell can help them. |
its not only developing costs, there are alot administrations costs that comes with such a release as well.
The Wii U was also considered cheap to port for (from x360). Source: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-07-23-ubisoft-says-wii-u-ports-costing-under-USD1-3-million
Dont forget games like Crysis 3 were almost finished for wii u but didnt got released (administration costs). Same happened to dozens of other games for several other systems (like battlefront 3, stargate worlds and co). Marketing and administration costs are often HIGHER then the costs of the game development.
Ubisoft also said some time ago, they already have finished wii u games but wont release them now because of low installed hw base.
