Tales Of Graces F Exclusive To PS3 Confirmed!

[gumby_trucker]

@oniyide, regarding the EXTRA WORK thing:

You are probably right that it won't happen, but by that logic why bring the game to the west at all? Hell why even make games to begin with? It's just extra work!
The question to ask would be is it worth it? or in other words what is the cost to benefit ratio?

Before I proceed to do the number-crunching myself, can we agree on a reasonable lower bound to sales of the Wii version in the west if it were made?
TOS: DOTNW sold 200,000 copies in the Americas according to vgchartz (I'm not sure it was even released in Europe) so may I suggest 100,000 copies for a Graces localization in english?

Now lets also assume the game is sold at a budget price and Bamco gets a mere $5 back on every copy sold, after the retailers, distributors, shipping and manufacturing co. and so on have taken their cuts.

That gives us a return of half a million bucks! Now lets make things even worse. In an earlier post I said I thought porting over to the Wii looked like a fairly small job but for the sake of argument lets assume I was wrong.

Lets say it takes a 10 man team working in parallel to move over the text and voicework to a DVD, and downsize the graphics and cut up the extra levels and so forth and port it all. If every single one of them is payed $ 10,000 a month to do this job (this is cost to employer we're talking about, so it should be higher than actual net salary to employee) it would have to take them five whole months to eat up that amount. Five Months!

I'm no developer so it may be that there is some serious flaw in my logic and/or numbers, but to me it just doesn't add up, not even remotely!

I would really appreciate it if someone on this forum with better knowledge of the process of delivering a game can tell me if I'm missing something, or if my whole premise is out of wack...

and before anyone posts a "your logic is not welcome here lol" kind of reply, I am just asking an honest question, not trying to attack Bamco or anybody else. Are my assumptions reasonable? or should I just STFU and let the big boys do the work?

A reply from anyone on this thread is most welcome.