Are wii development costs really cheaper?

[Kasz216]

Also

http://www.payscale.com/research/CN/Job=Software_Engineer_%2F_Developer_%2F_Programmer/Salary

1 CNY = 0.14 U.S. dollars

So your average Chinese programmer makes about $13,500 at optimium pay.

So you save about $60,000 per programmer per year.