| Mr Khan said: http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=90552
Some choice quotes: 1. “(on third parties making core games for ) And they've been huge financial flops... It's just not where the market is. Look at EA. Do you see the same Madden game on Wii? Of course not – it's a dumbed down game.” 2. Rein continued by noting that some of these are “good cautionary tales” in terms of what the publishers attempted to do and how the market received the titles. “There are some good publishers out there that make some great triple-A games that make hundreds of millions of dollars, and I'm not going to name them, but then at the end of the year when they look at earnings, they lose money! Or they make only tens of millions of profit on billions in revenue. It just shows you what happens when you think, 'Oh great, they're diversifying, they're stretching outside their comfort zone,' and now they're making less money,” he said. Ignorance must be bliss, huh? So he not only assumes that the core wii games have been financial flops, he seems to extrapolate them to the reason why the big publishers aren't making as much profits (or incurring losses)
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1. looks at Pro Evolution games and Tiger Woods 10 on the wii - damn i like this type of dumbing down.
2. lol? i would though that he was talking bout ps360 games not a wii games cause if i'm not mistaken most wii games are turning profit when they hit 100-150k while bigger projects like Madworld, Overkill are making profit after they sell 200-250k copies considering wii/ds legs and the fact that most games will still sell decent number of cipies 6 months after release. i guess it's easier to sell 100 or even 250k on the wii then FUCKING 1-1.5 MILLION on ps360 just to break even when if game won't sell atleast 1/3 of that on launch week it's fucked big time cause after 8-12 weeks most games are gone.
