| psrock said: So many myths have been killed this week. Anyway the biggest question is a lot a wii and Ps3 games get tons of their sales over a long period of times, legs as we call them, now is it better to have long legs and sell 1 million or sell a 1 million in a month and die off like MGS4? |
The MGS option is no doubt the best, once a game stops selling at full retail price you can write off profits for the most part. Maybe a bit extreme, but I'm not sure it is.
The problem is at retail I think, they just don't dare put faith in ANY third party Wii software, and outside of the xmas rush that's going to hurt published. It's not retails fault though, becuase I'm sure they're getting tons of junk that doesn't sell at all from the Wii, and how can they tell what will sell at all and what wil be a wasted investment?
Third parties will eventually find a way round this 'obstical' I've no doubt, companies like EA and Activision are the behemoths they are today for exactly that reason. It's never going to be the goldmine Nintendo have made for themselves though, in my opinion, but equally I guess it shouldn't be.
