HappySqurriel on 01 March 2009
| nitekrawler1285 said: It doesn't really do them much good to develop for a console that they don't understand. Even if Wii games cost 1/3 to 1/4 to develop they also require much more marketing to make consumers aware, in some cases as much as the game costs to make if not more already making the total 2/3 to 1/2 of an HD game. Considering that no one has seemed to make a game that has caught on with the Wii audience quite as well as Nintendo has that's still quite a risk. At least with the blockbuster style most publishers are accustomed to. RE4 is game that many find to be of great quality. It has yet to reach 2 million according to VGChartz. Original games will cost more to develop and have a higher chance of flopping because of not being a well known i.p. Many say that the game may recover costs but publishers are looking for profit. Something that seems difficult to achieve on the Wii especially when you have Nintendo as competition. Who's going to buy a tennis game when they have Wii Sports, or racing game that must compete against MKWii? |
Wii games may need greater resources devoted to marketing them than they're currently receiving in order to increase awareness, but I have seen nothing to demonstrate that they would need more marketing resources than are currently being devoted to HD console games.
Consider that games like Army of Two, Dark Sector and Haze have all received marketing budgets as large (if not larger) than any third party published Wii games ...
