Is It Worth Developing For PS3? - Bruce on Games to Investors

[Rainbird]

Squilliam said:

Rainbird said:

And like so many other things in life, that list needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

On that list, there are 27 titles which have been released, and we have data for. Nine of those are movie tie-ins, two are history channel games  and Prototype has only just been released.

Fishing and hunting games don't do very well on either PS3 or the 360, as opposed to on the Wii, and many of those games sold lowly on the 360 as well. Quake Wars, Fracture and SCORE International BAJA for example.

I'm not saying that some of these titles don't "undersell" on the PS3, like Tony Hawk Project 8, but if Activision want to make more money off the PS3, my suggestion would be to produce better games.

I prefer rock salt. If the cost of porting is more a fixed cost rather than a % of cost of development then it does make sense to not port games which will sell poorly and spend that money elsewhere. Also it gives space for other games on the PS3 to perform better, a win/win I say!

I would prefer that the money spent on porting the lousy games to the PS3 were spent on something better, like making good games

And yes, it is a win/win, and I will agree more with you for every copy of BAJA that was chosen over Motorstorm: Pacific Rift.

All in all though, why spend money on creating the bad games in the first place? Spend the money on making good games that will make nice profits on both platforms instead