Squilliam said:
Final-Fan said:
Squilliam said:
The Wii isn't some white knight of the industry, galloping in to save everyone from themselves. Do you guys not realise that long term its in the large publishers best interests to have expensive games?
The Wii isn't profitable overall anymore because so many games are being made for the platform and the cost of entry for developers is so low that a bunch of crud is essentially filling up the shelves. The equilibrium thats being made is that on average theres no profit to be had.
In the longer term for the industry, the large publishers want restricted entry into the industry so they can reap higher profits. They want and need expensive games to reduce competition and prevent others from taking that leap from small time to big time developer.
Essentially its like this. Higher development cost leads to less competition which leads to higher profits. Lower development cost leads to more competition which leads to lower profits. This is over the longer term. |
If there's too much competition in the "shitty Wii games" department, they can always ... make better games. It's not rocket science.
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Nope it doesn't matter what games are made on average, the market will become so flooded that the overall revenue meets overall expenditure with a margin to justify the capital investment.
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Nope, you haven't proven it's bad to make good games for the Wii, because that scenario should have happened with other systems, and it hasn't. Don't you dare insult our intelligence by even thinking you can convince us the Wii is different.
