Western Publishers are struggling

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tabsina said:

naznatips said:

It's not as simple as "let's just make everything on Wii and it will be all sunshine and daisies" either. World at War bombed on Wii. Someday it may recover sales, but it will take a long time, and shooters will never sell as well on Wii as they do on the HD consoles and PC.

Just as a hypothetical.. if the developers decided to only make a wii version of World at War, what would have happened?

My best guess is that the people who bought world of war on 360 or ps3, would have purchased it on wii if that were the only option.. sure, not all of them would, but i'm willing the bet the amount of profit would have been much higher than making a wii, 360, ps3 and pc version, and having the cheapest-to-make version selling the least because of those higher end (graphically) versions

(Note - the reason 360 and PS3 owners choose the versions on 360 and PS3 is another topic, this is purely from the perspective of the developers in the interest of staying in business)

My point:
1. I don't believe World at War is a good game to look at when making that sort of assessment
2. If developers are serious about making profits, they shouldn't be making games on both the wii and ps360/pc, big franchises (like Call of Duty) need to be exclusively on the wii (remember, this is purely in the interest of making profits), because I think if, lets say Call of Duty 6 were to be exclusively wii, many of those who would have bought the ps360/pc versions would buy the wii version instead, meaning more profits, whether or not every single one of them do

There's nothing saying that publishers and developers can not make big games for the HD consoles, but they should be looking at their entire line-up and producing a pyramid to manage the risk of their larger projects. If a company has a decent base of Wii, DS, PSP, PS2, PSN, XBox Live Arcade, and WiiWare games the risk of a big budget game brining down the entire company is pretty limited.