Japan - First Day Sales (Wii Music debut)

[yushire]

Gamerace said:

@ mrstickball - You're totally right but.... Those sales just don't make a difference when you consider development costs for HD. At least not when you're only taking the Japanese market into account. DQ on Wii in Japan was WAY more profittable then MGS4 which on Japan sales only would have still lost money. A LOT of money.

For Japanese developers developing a traditional game for the Japanese market the only really viable (IE: safe) bet is to make a PS2 game and maybe port to Wii.

And that's just a pathetic state of affairs no matter how you slice it.

As for Wii, it's clear, people are not buying a Wii to play the 'same old, same old' so developers shouldn't even go there.

Naah... the PS2 was on life support compared to the Wii, like I said again and again, it will be soon that 3rd parties will forced to develop games for the Wii because of the hardware sales it gots. SURE, the PS2 and the HD consoles are selling but for how long? Every month the gap between the Wii and DS and other consoles are getting wider and wider...