Viper1 said:
BMaker11 said:
Demotruk said:
BMaker11 said:
It's called appeasement
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Don't be ridiculous. The enthusiasts on the forums who have to be "appeased" are an insignificant section of the market. This is business, not politics we're talking about.
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It's not just the members of this or any forum. That's a very miniscule number compared to the entire market. It is, however, for the 50M+ "casual" gamers who see, as someone so adequately put it earlier, the new CoD coming on everything except the Wii.
@Viper1
100,000 man hours? I thought it was just a port. I thought everything was there for the game, and just needed to be laid out on the Wii's architecture. I thought ports were already a lot cheaper to make on any platform, and now it's the Wii? And no impending threat? Hrmmm...ever heard of Modern Warfare 2? You know, the game that sent everything else into 2010? Like many have said, MW2 is going to cannabalize MW: Wii's sales, and then Activision will just turn around and say "well, we finally gave you the game, and you didn't buy it. Guess what we said is true about hardcore games. Oh well"
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30 people x 50 hours weeks x 70 weeks = 105,000 man hours. Of course the numbers are just averages but this comes out to about $3 million. Not shovelware cheap but not full AAA game costs either.
And how exactly is MW threatening Activision? More face palm. For your appeasement theory to work, Activision would need to be threatened by Wii owners such as from a massive boycott. You just suggested that the threat was their own game on completely different platforms.
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MW2 isn't threatening Activision, but it is threatening MW: Wii's sales. MW2 is supposed to be the biggest game ever (I doubt it will be, but let's just go by what Activision is saying). Don't you think that will completely overshadow MW: Wii...a 2 year old port?
