Fun Fact: Assassins Creed (Combined) tracking above SMG

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Kyros said:

I think its great AC was one of the most beautiful and innovative games out there. I'm sure SMG is a perfectly polished game but it simply is "yet another Mario game" (yamg).
Its nice to see that sometimes new IP wins although this may not last.

"it will be FAR more profitable than AC."

I doubt that. In the 5mio copies region development costs are irrelevant and PS3 and 360 games are 25% more expensive than Wii games. Ubisoft has definitely made more money with AC than Nintendo with SMG and this will last for a while. (And AC for PC sales will also be added)

So you're saying the game that has higher development costs, less sales, is third party multiplatform (porting costs are minimal when you compare it to the royalties that have to be paid per sale to Sony/MS, which are much higher than an exclusive title) somehow made more money?

Please explain, how did you come to this ridiculous viewpoint? There is absolutely no way that Ubisoft has made more money from AC than Nintendo has from SMG. You're right, when games have sold 5 million copies the development costs are insignificant, but considering Nintendo has sold more copies and makes a much bigger profit on each one, I don't quite understand where you're coming from.

This of course doesn't begin to take into account all the extra Wii sales and sales of other games that Nintendo would have benifited from with SMG.