Are wii development costs really cheaper?

[MaxwellGT2000]

Pristine20 said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:
The reason Wii development is cheaper is because to make an HD game in the same time frame as games in past gens it takes a much larger staff then it once did, the Wii however takes a similar team size as last gen to develop a good game, smaller teams means either more games on the market or cheaper costs which ever the developer and publisher decide on is their best route.

Bottom line is, because it takes a smaller team to make a quality Wii effort the development costs on Wii are significantly cheaper, there is no way to argue with that...

read through the thread, you'll see that all isn't set in stone. I really don't want to repeat points that have already been made

 

 

And get another brain tumor from reading the replies, I think not.

No game development is set in stone, but to make a traditional game on Wii trying to max out the Wii console much like games try to max out the other two consoles you're not looking at as much work and as big of a team and that means development is cheaper, period, there is no debate here...

There was a thread a while back about this same topic and it ended up getting Groucho banned (also known as Procrastinato now, amazing how he's still in the debate now) all because of his feverous debating lead to trolling cause we all know the real reason people are so opposed to Wii being cheaper to develop for is because fanboys hate to hear their console somehow being bad for the industry and their sworn enemy having an upper hand, it's a terrible thought I know but people need to manage somehow...