SEGA: Its not game over for Mature Wii Titles

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noname2200 said:

Procrastinato said:

moondeep said:
I don't think Procrastinato truly doubts that the Wii is FAR cheaper to develop for, but he just likes to see numbers to make him feel warm and fuzzy. I love numbers also. That being said, it's very hard to theorycraft how much a HD-exclusive game would've cost if done soley for the Wii and vice versa. I think we're asking a big much to extrapilate based on incongruent examples.

Well put, moondeep.  I just like hard evidence.  I'm not trying to stir up trouble.  I just don't like unsubstantiated claims, and leaps of faith based upon them.

We've heard lots of musings about this, but... there really isn't even a shred of proof.  Every comment we've ever heard from a publisher has been pretty vague, with regards to the games they're talking about.  Its going to extremes to imagine that Wii games can be both cheap and high-grade, when basically all the truly high-quality titles we've seen on the Wii thusfar have cost a decent amount of money (like SMG @ $17M).  

I want to see the $5M Wii title people hold as high in regard as games that cost $20M to make (like Uncharted, on the PS3, which supposedly cost about $19M).  Until then, lets let the known facts speak, and not make nutty assumptions -- even if they eventually turn out true-ish.

Out of curiousity, where'd you get $17 million from?

His anus.