Squilliam said:
1/2. When publishers come in with new software like Just Dance @ $40 it says a lot about the price people are willing to pay for Wii software. This reflects on both on higher budget releases and lower budget releases respectively. So whilst the costs may be higher on HD console releases, the market revenue is also twice as much and the average sale price is at least $10 more. With the development of better art tools over the last 6 years I also believe that the costs in creating HD art assets have also declined considerably. 3. You say they would make more money and yet publishers appear to you to be engaging in a form of collective idiocy. Perhaps instead you should think of why they are behaving the way they are if they all engage in same behaviour. This isn't some conspiracy theory. So whilst they have lost considerable quantities of money I don't believe they would have done any better had they supported the Wii or if they supported the Wii more on an ongoing basis. |
Where did I claim it was a conspiracy? Plus you seem to think that mass idiocy isn't something that happens among businesses, but history shows that can be very common when industries get complacent and companies get set in their ways.
And how is just believing they wouldn't have made more money by also supporting the Wii proof they wouldn't have? It would have added yet another pillar of millions of buyers (since the 360 and PS3 buyers needed games in the first place to support the system), with profit margins at least as high (let's not try to throw around the numbers, as you still haven't shown how $20 million and equivalent marketing versus $5 million and equivalent makes for less money than $30 versus $20), added onto the money they would already be making. Plus games made for the Wii would mean original development costs would be lower, and the HD versions would just be adding the graphics and any extra features.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs