Wii Production Costs

[theprof00]

izaaz101 said:

theprof00 said:
Hmm, ok then.

I'll give it a shot.
Nintendo makes about 8+ in licensing fees.
about 15-20 goes to the retailers.

So for a 50$ game, the devs make about 32+$
Then you need to factor in dev costs and so forth.
it probably comes to about 6$ profit per game.

I think most wii games require about 300-400k sales to turn profit, so that would mean they cost maybe 2-4M, high quality ones being the latter, or maybe about 6M or so.

You've left out publishers. And I'm assuming you're lumping in distributors with retailers?

there's a lot of different places that get money ebfore they do. In Europe it's even worse because they have additional costs.

I think the profit number is close to accurate, although in some cases the dev only makes like 1$ for the first 100k or so.