Miyamoto's Mistake and what it'll cost the Wii

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shams said:
No comment. How "Wii Music" has "failed" - is beyond me. Remember that Nintendo makes money off SHIPMENT sales - not RETAIL sales.

And I would say its already got close to shipping 1m units worldwide. And for a full priced game, with no controllers included - Ninty will be making a solid $20US-$30US "profit" per unit - meaning approx $25m in their pockets already.

Even if the game cost $5m to make - and that might be doubtful - that's a $20m US profit *already*.

By the time the Wii stops selling, WiiMusic will have made Ninty a cool $60-100m in profit - if not more.

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Its the perception that things like this are "failures" that keeps Ninty laughing all the way to the bank - while EA/Sony (etc) rack up hundreds of millions of losses per qrt.

 

Noone is saying they are going to loose money over it.

However seeing Nintendo's track record.

Could the team that developed the game have developped something a lot more successfull in the same time ? Maybe....

5 Million$ cost ? Lol they probably spend more than that on marketing alone...

And the game kept Miyamoto busy for a while and that alone is priceless seeing the kind of game he has overseen in the past...