Now I think about it, whats with many ads on COD WAWii? My opinion on it

[mike_intellivision]

Griffin said:

There is no way Activision profits more on WaW on wii then the 360/PS3 versions.  There is no way of even knowing if the wii version has made any money at all.  We know 100% that the HD versions are making massive amounts of money.  The HD engine was already made and had very slight upgrades to it.  The entire game engine needed to be tranfered to the wii, they also sell the wii version for less aswell. 

GTA4 has also sold 11.5mil units. They would of only needed to sell around 4mil copies to make money.  They also received 50mil from Ms for special DLC.  Bioshock would of also made money, around 1mil units would of made money, with a 20% porting cost to the PS3 it only needed to sell 200k.

 

Without a solid development cost figure ... that is nothing but conjecture as far as the profit is concerned.  That being said, I agree that they probably are making money on those versions.  But we don't really know how much they made or how much is needed to be sold to make a profit.

As for tracking, it is interesting that the three places metiioned as being non-tracked by NPD -- Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, and Target (the last of which I had not heard before) tend to have much larger Wii displays than the other systems. I was in a Target today and the Wii section was as large as the PS3 and Xbox 360 sections COMBINED.  What this means is that if NPD is using the old model, it is consistently underestimating Wii software sales. (Also, Wii bargain software sales are probably undertracked as they fly from their special displays near the registers at Target).

 

Mike from Morgantown