alfredofroylan on 31 March 2009
Why Unfortunate??
Reggie Fils-Aime, chief marketing officer for Nintendo of America, said publishers of games for its Wii console needed to sell one million units of a game to turn a profit. He said that was a lower threshold than for the other consoles. Only 16 out of 486 games for Nintendo Wii game machines have sold more than one million units as of March 1, according to NPD, which tracks the sales of consumer products. (Nine of the best sellers are made by Nintendo.)
Mr. Fils-Aime said Nintendo recognized the economics were changing when it developed the Wii. He said the company deliberately did not add high-definition capability to the Wii so games would be cheaper to make.
Mr. Fils-Aime said Nintendo recognized the economics were changing when it developed the Wii. He said the company deliberately did not add high-definition capability to the Wii so games would be cheaper to make.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/technology/30game.html?_r=1&hpw
Well first of all some games at 360 made a profit at 600k. Seems like Reggie (or the NYT) forget to put the budget for the game as a indicator for that number, yes some high budget AAA titles like Mario Galaxy need that million but honestly I can't believe that a crappy, cheap game like Carnival Games needed that number.
