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Squilliam on 31 December 2008
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Kasz216 said:
Squilliam said:
Because once to factor in all the costs, the bigger the game the less the Wii "advantages" on overall cost are important.


1. Massive advertisement; You have to advertise as much if not more than HD games to target the wider demographic of users on the Wii.

2. The cost/benifit ratio still applies; Why spend $10,000,000 making a Wii game look good when for an extra $10,000,000 the game will look 5* better?

3. Overall cost ratios come down and favour HD development more as your overall budget increases. Wii $10,000,000 game + $10,000,000 advertisement vs HD $20,000,000 game + $10,000,000 advertisement and the ratio is 2:3.

4. Easier to target demographics and advertising + word of mouth very easy to do with the HD community. The demographics they target for these games are deep, wide and easy to get to within the HD owner userbase. Also never underestimate the power of word of mouth selling games, especially within Xbox Live.

I actually disagree with all your points here.  I'd argue word of mouth is better on the Wii... i mean that's why wii games have better legs.

And games cost more to make look better on the PS360... in general.

Your making all the wrong arguements.

Market Diversification and the fact that the PS360 games when they flop, flop hard is the reason.

 

Not really, I was talking advertisement. When your userbase is more similar you can target your advertisements better to make them more effective. If you could target one TV station and know that 40% of your potential demographic is watching it then you don't have to spend as much to target them.

Word of mouth is at least as strong on the Xbox 360 when you consider the whole online community has mics and and the purchasing patterns are different, just because a game sells most of its sales quickly doesn't mean that it wasn't helped by major word of mouth. The Wii looks like it has better long term sales because A.) Their console owners take their sweet time to make purchases. B.) The sales of the console are higher so there are a lot of people buying multiples of games when they purchase their system and the games are cheaper so they are likely to pick up a couple of cheaper $20 games.

Btw, name one BIG HD game that has flopped. (40-60 Million budget)

 



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