Viper1 on 09 February 2009
| irstupid said: yea buts that all short term. Its like going to college. You can make 20-30k right out of high school, or you can go to college and when you graduate make 50-60k a year. So they may be making some extra profit on a port of a game, but are thus delaying a new game that could be making them a shit ton more than a little profit. |
OK, you're talking resource allocation versus amortization. In the example used by ph4nt, the $50 would still likely be best served as he suggested because any other use would result in what would have to be a low budget project since $100 is the standard.
However, if they do believe they can use the $50 and make more than the $200 possible from the amortized port/other console version, then it would be better spent there.
In the current CoD:WaWexample, if Activision felt their resources could be better served by making a different game than CoD:WaW on Wii, then they would have done that.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
