Wii "inhospitable platform for third-party publishers"

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ToastyJaguar said:
this takes me back to when the Epic Games president said he believes there is not much money for third-parties on the Wii.

I agreed then and i agree now.

Come on it's staring everyone in the face, most of the million sellers on the Wii are by Nintendo.

Ok maybe third parties are not putting in the same effort as Nintendo but for dev's like Epic and Capcom who are busy pushing the 360/PS3, they will make a ton of money on those consoles and just scraps on the Wii.

That's what i'm seeing at the moment with the sports games but who knows, i might be proven wrong when The Force Unleashed is released but i have a strong feeling the Wii version will sell the least.

 

While most HD games need to sell over a million copies to break even, Wii games have smaller budgets, so they don't need to sell as much. "Great Sales" is not a synonym for "Great Success". For example, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (the movie) made more than 400 million dollars worldwide, while Saw made approximately 100 million dollars worldwide. If you think "oh, so Prince Caspian was much more successful", you are definitely wrong: PC had a 200 million $ budget (not including advertising), and it needed more than double of that to start turning in some profit; Saw cost slightly over a million dollars to make... now do the math.