| arsenal009 said: Over the past couple years I read a few developers state that, to make a similar game on either console, development costs on the Wii are about 1/3 (33%) the costs of a PS360 game. Thing is, Wii games sell for $50 whereas PS360 games go for $60, that's 5/6 (83%) the price of PS360 games. Now, I know a lot of Developers and Publishers are going bankrupt / suffering net losses making games for PS360 but I still feel Wii owners are getting short changed here. I'm not saying sell the games for 1/3 the price, but would something like $30, 50% the price of PS360 games be more fair towards Wii owners?
What are your thoughts on this matter? |
See this is not a problem the Wii should be fixing.
The Wii costs more to develop for than the past generation consoles (at least it does on the handful of games devs make an effort for) and it has the same game price as last gen.
The problem is not the Wii game prices, the problem is the dev costs for making a HD game.
None of this is fact, I am just guessing numbers here... but some may be close due to logic and memory.
(someone will need to confirm game prices as I have no idea what past gen games were in $)
Generation / average dev cost / game prices
NES gen / $50k / $50
SNES gen / $150k / $50
PS1 gen / $800k / $50
PS2 gen / $2 mil / $50
HD twins / $12 mil / $60 OR Wii / $4mil / $50
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I think the devs are the ones being shafted by us, the extra $10 was nothing in comparison to how much more the games cost to make now than they used to.
