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Kytiara on 21 May 2007
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NorthStar said:
shams said:

Game pricing has nothing to do with the cost of a games development.

The Wii is still relatively new, and as such, has the price of "standard" games (from last-gen).

MS/Sony are milking consumers by convincing them that $60US ($120AU!) is a reasonable price to pay for a next-gen game - but if people buy them, then hey. At least some of them will be worth this.

Nintendo could charge this level for Galaxy / Metroid - and they would still sell. But Im glad they don't, and it brings it back to pricing for the average consumer rather than a hard-core gamer. 


Are you kidding me? Can you not see the difference in a final product Wii game to a Final product game for 360or PS3? Nothing inside the Wii is relatively new at all. It is made with old hardware that people have been designing on for years. There is alot more money going into PS3 and 360 games.

MS and sony are Milking people? I have a Gamecube and a Wii along with a PS2 and PS3 . After playing the Wii you can feel that maybe Nintendo could have made a Motion sensing bar and controller for the gamecube and that would have been very much like the Wii and the Wii games. on the other hand  the PS3 is clearly an evolution over the PS2 you see it in every sceen of every game. I am in no way trying to tear down the Wii but it is what it is . It is last generation hardware, and sould be cheaper than PS3 and 360  to develop for.


So why aren't you complaining about the fact that PC games still cost the same amount for a new game as they have for years and years.  The architecture for a PC game hasn't change in a very long time .  People continue to use the same languages and the same tools to build PC games, yet you aren't complaining about those prices.

This argument about the Wii being "Old hardware" is bull poop, for several reasons.  First, just because its built on the same architecture as the Gamecube does NOT mean its gamecube hardware.  Get serious people, the original pentium and the P4 are the same architecture as well (by that I mean they are x86 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86), but they are vastly different in power and performance.

Second, even though the architecture and SDK's are similar, the Wii has many extra resources so games still have to be optimized differently, meaning developers still need to learn how to develop for the wii WELL.  This just means the learning curve is greatly reduced.

You Sony and Xbox fans need to get off your freaking high horses.  Yes, PS3 and Xbox are vastly more powerful than the Wii.  That does not mean they are somehow superior in any way.  It doesn't mean they are better engineered, it doesn't even mean that they are preferrable, it just means they are MORE POWERFUL.  An F1 engine is more powerful than a Honda Civic engine, but Honda uses the same amount of engineering in both.

Nintendo has kept the same game pricing as last generation.  In my opinion, the fact that xbox and ps3 games feel they need to increase that price just indicates game development costs for those two systems are rediculous.