Reggie: Third parties don't "get" the Wii, more

[The Ghost of RubangB]

wfz said:

Esa-Petteri said:

wfz said:
Red Steel cost over 10 million to make?!?!?! In my mind, there's no way it even passed 3 million... Do you have a Link, Esa-Petteri?

http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=2781

 

That is amazing, especially considering how crappy the game was in almost all aspects.

Was there any specific reason for that high cost, or is that normal? I find it hard to believe that it had the same budget as games like TP, SMG, and MP3.

 

There is no reason for that budget for that game.  That's just Ubisoft blowing all their money on a shitty game.  But I think they were working on the game before they knew about the Wii's specs or the Wii remote, so that might have made it cost a little more.  They wanted to rush a big budget game to launch, and even though the game sucked, it totally worked and it sold 1 million instantly, making a nice profit.

Just imagine how good it could have been if each Ubisoft dollar spent on development was as good as a Nintendo dollar.  That would've been a hell of a game.