Dno said:
Viper1 said:
Dno said:
Viper1 said:
Actually, Dno, there are more games releasing to retail on the Wii than the PS3 and X360 combined.
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o this is true and i no but i dont expect huge number from any 3rd party game this year on wii but ps360 has CODMW2, Assaissans cred, splinter Cell, etc etc all to do HUGE numbers. (i could be forgetting a lot but im not gonna look it up lol)
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This is where a lot of people fail to look at the whole picture. Being a sales site that looks very closely at individual game sales we tend to believe 3rd party games on Wii don't sell very well and this holds some truth...the issue is that publishers tend to look at the portfolio as a whole where the Wii tends to actually have more sales overall (and at times more revenue too as was the case seen in that Activision thread).
We forget that publishers don't expect every game to sell X number of million units and that they actually intent to only sell at times a few hundred thousand and that's it. For example: Publisher A might release 1 big title on the HD consoles with expected sales of 2 million total while releasing 6 games on Wii expecting sales of 400k a piece which is a total of 2.4 million.
The above scenario doesn't look particularly appealing for Wii from a blockbuster games centric viewpoint (which is the viewpoint most consumers have) but it's very apealing to the publishers and investors.
True that Wii owners would love more actual blockbuster this thrown in the mix but given the development time it takes to plan, secure funding and develop those kinds of games, it's little wonder we haven't received many when you consider the list I provided on page 3.
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yes good post i can see that.
but when you expect a game to sell 5-6 million you dont put it on the wii. this is what the source said also So this proves that most of the that companies dont need the wii as much as people think they do because if thats the case then a lot of companies would be dead but most are doing fine. now i think a lot of companies see the wiis install base and goes lets try to milk it but so far lots of HD only companies are doing fine.
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The one problem being that most publishers are not doing fine. Take a look at the financial reports from those publishers. Many are heavily in debt now and others are seeing lowered profits.
Some will want to attribute this to the economy, others will say the HD consoles are financial burdens and many other potential validations for the losses. All are correct in their own way with neither being an overwhelming factor.
Given this it is certainly wise for publishers to populate their gaming portfolio will profitable Wii titles to prop up losses taken upon by big projects that don't deliver. Ubisoft (and others) have openly stated that Wii profits prop up big HD console projects because the HD projects alone don't provide enough Return On Investment by themselves. This is only an example and not representative of every company but it does illustrate the point with a real world circumstance.
As for companies not going dead, do you not recall how many publishers and developers have closed or been forced to merge with a bigger studio this generation?
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