Are wii development costs really cheaper?

[kitler53]

Pristine20 said:

If you switch the people who were making ps360 games to wii games, how would there be a significant decrease in cost if these guys don't take a pay cut? Also, since wii games apparently take less time to develop, would these guys always be working on something to justify their paychecks or would they be fired and rehired or are we just going to have lots of studio downsizing as part of the paradigm shift to wii game production because if you think about it, the costs to the publisher are still the same whether it be 1 HD console game of the 4 wii games.

 

they don't take a pay cut, that's just stupid.  it's all about the number of manhours, the total number of hours put into the project by every employ working on the project.  so like you said, "wii games apparently take less time to develop" and therefore cost less money.

think of it like this, a 40 member team over the same timeperiod could either put out 1 HD game or ~3 wii games (just made those numbers up btw, don't quote them as absolute fact).  if the combined sales of 3 wii games is lager than 1 HD game than the wii games were a better investment.