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disolitude on 11 February 2009
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Grampy said:
tuoyo said:
disolitude said:

 

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.

I think the point they make is that companies with too much of a focus on HD gaming are the ones losing money and not that a company that supports Wii can never lose money.  Sega would have been 10 times worse off if they did not support Wii and possibly much better off if they did not support the HD consoles at all.

If you use the often quoted rule of thumb that 250K is breakeven for Wii and 500K for HD and Sega created the same number of games for each concole:
Wii = 12 games profitable     XBox=4       PS3=4

 

So 8 Vs 12...not bad for the Wii.

In any case, I think the main obstacle for Wii development is that a lot of devs just preffer developing for the HD console reguardless of the cost.

I think Sega is trying to find the balance of having their game developers happy while pulling in a profit.

Sega could just pull a nintendo and release last gen games with uptaded graphics and motion controls...infact they did that on a few occasions (House of dead 2/3, samba, ghost squad, Sega Bass Fishing) ...

Today they announced Alien VS Predator for PS360...which means they have 3 Alien games in development for HD consoles...which shows they are commited to HD platforms as well as the Wii.

This means that they are either:

1. stupid and like to lose money

2. think that the titles they publish for Wii/PS3/360 will pull in a profit as a whole

3. the stories of next gen titles cosing them profits are untrue and something else is to blame.