OMG ! I HATE UBISOFT !!!!

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elendar said:
If people take the time to read the whole artical.

"Guillemot suggested that a casual game costs only between ¬ 1 million and ¬ 4 million ($1.4m to $5.4m) to develop, depending on the number of platforms. By comparison he quoted a figure of between ¬ 5 million and ¬ 10 million ($6.8m to $13.6m) for a traditional Wii game and ¬ 10 million to ¬ 20 million ($13.6m to $27.1m) for an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 title"

Your traditional wii games are not what is referring to when he says causal games. Most likley xboxlive, wii mini games, ps3 network games. Also DS..

In addition, he states they help Finace the more expensive projects. NOT that they lose money on them. More causal games made = more $ and the ability to develope more expensive games at the same time.

Thanks for clearing this out. That pretty much changes the whole aspect to that statement. Well, you are right about financials, but the truth is, that even if they would know that their big budget project makes money, still the unfinished game pushes profits down. And what he is stating is, that they need more funding to make those big budget titles, which don't look too good. Anyway, still they have doubts about getting cash from big budget titles, even Assassins Creed went also for the DS. That you could call playing safe. @Kber: You are right, but the situation is that 12M Step-up makes 890M and 114M makes 258... The thing you are wrong, is that PS3 and 360 are too weak to push big franchises forward. Wii is the strong one when it comes to pushing big franchises. Or at least is in the future. Since Wii will have the largest install base. It's the sales that push franchises forward. And besides, Wii is a lot bigger leap from last gen than PS3 and 360 together. @Onna&Fabinou: This is the exact same thing that was with the PS2 and PSX. All they made was quick cash-ins. So nothing has changed. Except the best selling console.