Wii Dosent make 3rd parties money?

[Groucho]

HappySqurriel said:

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.

 

You can ignore the vast majority of publishers and developers who claim that it takes 2 to 4 times the development resources to make a HD game as it does to make a Wii game, and enjoy the magical world of gum-drops where the additional content needed to produce the advanced graphical effects that are in most HD games appears out of thin air ...

Vast Majority?  Big statement.  Gumdrops, in the form of links, please.  We'd all love to have these hard "2 to 4 times" numbers at our fingertips, like you seem to, and the definition of "average" in any of these links would... well it would be great.

Some nice assumptions you're making there about the source of the cost of resources in game development there as well... work in the games industry do you?  Have any backup for these claims? Or.. are you just theorizing, based on your vast personal knowledge of what game development might be all about?