| LordTheNightKnight said: "No I want some reasons not just a foggy statement." Telling you that specific publishers are reporting losses is foggy? |
Yes but do you know why exactly ? Which game made how much loss for them how much of the losses were investments ? How looks the internal calculation ?
Dont you think they have more informations then anyone here and make their decisions based on these or do you think they are just dumb as hell and make losses by purpose despite knowing how to make money on the Wii.
@maxwellgt2000
Ok you mentioned 3 games and one publisher but that still not indicating a trend that all make losses because of HD development and its generally stupid to make games for Hd consoles. If a game screwed up on HD consoles its a bigger loss then a Wii game which screwed up. But how many games on wii screwed up NONE ? Wii games cost 3 times less then HD games but this list which was posted before showed games with 20k-100k sales we can assume that they all screwed up.
Its a bold statement to basically say like some people here do that all 3rd party developers are making losses with most HD games. And they are focusing despite that towards the HD consoles.
Thats not enough to prof such a point.
@NJ5
All of you think the whole industy is wrong ? HD development is a failure ? So what is going to happen with them ? Because I bet nothing will happen nothing special which could indicate such a huge failure. The industry is NOT domed.
Development costs are increasing due to HD development but why ? Hd development is costlier but the Hardware capablities are not increasing they stay the same so why should they increase that much ? So games will not cost 20-30 Million like the internet says but it will cost even more in 3 years ?
There are just two possibilties the whole industry is dumb as hell or you all are right.
I really think they know their buisness way better then you all are. I will make tomorrow further research and list the games which were probably a financial failure on the Wii.
Most of HD games dont cost 50 Million they cost 20 Million and such games break even with one Million and Mulitplatform develompment use of a known engine fix costs which decrease over the time make the games cheaper and cheaper. In 5-10 years HD game development will be almost as expensive as development for PS2 at the time, if you subtract the inflation.
Last gen there were a lot of companys which went bankrupt and some others grew. Nothing special happened HD gaming is costlier but its ALWAYS like this. This is no novelty this happens every generation the wii is the first console which is not like this. But the HD sales are good enough to justifiy the extra expense.
That some companys struggle is normal and that they have extra expenses in the beginning is normal too and not all of the games are commercial success on NO console. If the developers could earn more money with Wii then with HD consoles they would do it. Human nature or just stupidity is wishful thinking some companys can be wrong but all of them definetly not.
Ok lets assume you all are right but what happens next ? How many companys are going bankrupt will companys shift to Wii again ? Will there be a major crash this generation ? What are the consequences ?
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