| RolStoppable said: You'll make tons of money by keeping the HD path? That didn't really happen though. But, of course, this is what third parties hoped as to how things would play out. This win-win scenario happened to be more of a lose-lose scenario in the end. |
Can you really prove that they would have lost any less money had they focused more heavily on the Wii and released twice the number of games? The issue really has always been too many developers and not enough software revenue. It doesn't matter how much each project costs to develop and I doubt it makes much difference if they release 3 Wii games for every one DX9 console game not made because its unlikely that overall industry software revenues would have increased much to compensate for increased development focus on the Wii.
At least by focusing on the DX9 consoles they developed software which will remain relevant for longer and invested in relevant technology which they would have needed to do anyway. Development on the Wii first and foremost would only really post-pone or defer the required investment to a later date.
Tease.
