Reggie says most Wii games can make a profit with under a million sold.

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MaxwellGT2000 said:

Gojimaster said:
This is dumbest post I have ever seen here. If this post is true, then most HD games could never make a profit since they cost so much more to develop than Wii games.

Going by what EA said the average HD game needs 1.1 million copies sold between both consoles to break even, and the budgets for Wii games on average are 1/4th that of HD games.  Figure that up how you will.

OT: Reggie is obviously trying to encourage publishers to come to Wii, of course it was misquoted and used against him, but what he tried to say is this "Hey you advertise and market so hard to just reach that break even point at 1 million on the HD systems, why not come over here where doing that will already net you a profit by the time you hit a million"

Which convinces me developers often have a really irrational hatred for the Wii (I refuse to spend less money to make my games) and/or they are using HD graphics as a crutch (I refuse to expose any flaws in this game design by not throwing as much detail and shiny effects in there as I can).

The Conduit shows the Wii won't let you hide problems with those, but at least HVS are taking that lesson as a reason to improve. Not sure other developers think so.