| kowenicki said: Whilst I agree with what you are trying to say, which is that not all games that sell on Wii are Nintendo games... you cant really escape the fact that wii isnt the best home for 3rd party, actually its relatively (and absolutely? probably) the worst of the three isnt it? |
Is it? The overall third party sales are higher, and the costs are (much) lower. Revenue is probably lower, but I doubt it's that much lower. Granted, there are more Wii games made, but the vast majority of them are very cheap attempts to cash in on the casual craze, a very large number of them with their budget's combined would be less than a handful of the very expensive HD games combined. CoD:MW2 cost $200mill including marketing, GTAIV cost around $100mill, the highest costing Wii game ever was SMG at $20mill, and most are far far cheaper.
The average PS3 game costs $8.9mill and needs half a million to make a profit. That barrier is much lower on Wii.
http://www.destructoid.com/500k-sales-of-each-ps3-game-needed-for-profit-28232.phtml
A game I'm developing with some friends:
www.xnagg.com/zombieasteroids/publish.htm
It is largely a technical exercise but feedback is appreciated.
