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

[LordTheNightKnight]

bdbdbd said:
@LordTheNightKnight: Actually their reasons make perfect sense on the business side. The model, though, i think is flawed.

Everyone is after a blockbuster, like GTA4 or MW2, and once a game reaches a certain point in sales, releasing the game on the HD platforms, where they are more expensive, simply generate more money.

Looking at the revenue (at retail), a 10 million difference in dev costs is offset when the game sells its first million.

The generate more money thing is because they actually make the games people want to buy on them. Putting a full 3D GTA on the Wii will generate more money and even more profit but they won't because they know that will prove them wrong about the Wii.