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happydolphin on 06 February 2012
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Barozi said:
happydolphin said:

True, many games barely sold in the millions, but even if the ports yielded 50k, 100k, it'll still yield ROI. But given the Wii single-plat base is starving for 7th gen HD content, I see a market. I have no facts to back it up, so we're both theorizing, given a measure of facts to work with.

I really, really, REALLY doubt that 50k sales would be enough to make a profit. If it was that cheap to make, everything on consoles would be on PC, everything on PC would be on consoles and everything last gen would be on current gen consoles.
At the same time these developers could work on a different project that is certain to make much higher profits (i.e. working on AC3)

Many games of this gen are very complex and would definitely need more time to port and thus more sales than ports from last gen.

Keep in mind, I'm mostly thinking ports and compilations here, with minor remastering when I say 50k sales. And that's bottom end of the spectrum. As my list shows, there are many games that sold in the hunderds of thousands. I was being conservative right.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4414160

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4414213