| Grampy said:
The suggestion that the Wii has anything to do with Sega’s financial woes is very misleading. In fact Sega has supported all three consoles equally as well as the handhelds and if anyone has let them down it is certainly NOT the Wii or Nintendo. XBox360 27 Games 1Plat.(may double) 4Gold PS3 25 Games 0Plat. 4Gold Wii 26 Games 1 Megahit 1 Plat (may double) 6 Gold DS 53 Games 1 Megahit 1 Double Plat. 2 Plat. 4 Gold Looking at that result, which console are you going to cut back? The Wii, not f**king likely since its top selling game SOLD MORE COPIES ALONE than either HD console sold in all. Per game produced, the Wii far and away out performed everybody and the DS was second. If they start cutting support on any rational basis then the PS3 and the PSP are toast. In fact, given development cost and results, the case could easily be made that they should develop exclusively for the Wii and the DS. |
1. No one is suggesting that Wii may have cause this. However every Wii supporter on this site claims that companies supporting HD consoles only are the ones that are losing money. Howmany posts have you seen stating "Another casualty of HD gaming"? I want to show that this is simply not true.
Things to blame are:
-game quality
-economy
-company business parctices
etc
2. Sega financial year starts April 2008 - March 2009. Mario and sonic olympics sold more than half of its total in the previous financial year.
3. Sega is not associated with blockbusters these days. They don't spend 30 million dollars on games. Halo 3 was 30 million dollars. Gears of War 1 was 10 million!!! Sega is not in the same league these days. For them to lose 60 million they would have to make 5-6 HD games and see absolutely no return on them. And while yes, Golden axe and V. Chronicles did flop, they still sold 130K and 350K each. Rest of the HD games should have atleast made a return on their investment. When you add the games that performed well for them, there really isn't a reason that Sega should have lost that much money in 2008-9 fiscal year.
http://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/settlement/segment_consumer.html
While that chart only goes up to last year, it shows that their R&D cost was going through the roof in 2008. This is before they picked up publishing rights to Madworld, Bayonetta, Conduit...
Im very interested in seeing how it will look this year if last year was so high.
