Nintendo Wii owners, it's time to acknowledge third party failures

[Khuutra]

BMaker11 said:

Khuutra said:

BMaker11 said:

If that were true, not a single development studio would fail if they all got paid anyway. Only publishers would go under, if they front the bill to games that don't sell well

That's not true: if developers don't make games that sell well, nobody will publish their games, so they go bankrupt because they don't have a source of income.

Now.

Mario Galaxy probably took more than a million to reach profit, right? At least a smidgen!

In an ideal world, that would be true, but you still don't see it happen. Factor 5 put out shitty Lair, yet they've got publishers giving them money to make games still, and that's just one example. And yes, SMG probably took more than a million to profit. Even though seeing how it's a Nintendo game developed in-house, meaning Nintendo saw pretty much all the money from each game sale, it probably didn't need much over a million. The fact that it's sold, what 8 million, is just overkill and surplus money

It does happen, though. Factor 5 is dead.

Right, yes, we've agreed that Mario Galaxy probably took over a million to make profit in this scenario. Let's be generous, though, and pretend it only took a million - one million - copies sold to make profit. If it cost 16 million to make, and turned profit after a million, that would mean that Nintendo $16 per copy sold, right?

NOBODY CORRECT THIS. THIS IS A HYPOTHETICAL I'M USING TO PROVE A POINT.