Wii Dosent make 3rd parties money?

[jammy2211]

Groucho said:

There really is no data supporting the "Wii best sellers cost way less than PS360 best sellers" claim. There are some offhanded remarks about the "average Wii title" costing less than a PS360 game, and that's about it.

The average Wii title. Think about that for a sec. Average in sales? Average Number Sold? Mean dev cost? Median dev cost? Is marketing also cheaper on "average"? Why? Which publisher stated this? Was it one, or was it just a random developer claiming to know the entire industry? What's their definition of "average"? Etc.

A lot of leaps of faith, from a couple random quips.

 I do wonder about that too, even if you had say, mean dev costs, a good deal of Wii developement seems to be a small group of devs working on what turns out to be an enhanced flash games or set of minigames. No doubt this does cost peanuts but it brings the average down. If someone wants to make a Mario Galaxy or Metroid Prime 3 it ain't gonna cost peanuts, albeit the equivalent on PS360 would cost me.

 Sometimes we get developers give an insight, I believe the mushroom men spore wars guys said they had a developement budget of $4 million. They're hardly going to be on the higher end of Wii developement though.