Ubisoft: Wii U games cost less than $1 million to port

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z101 said:

1 Million Euro? For a simple port of a game?

The developers of Darksiders2 said something about that it took five weeks for three programmers to made a working port of Darksiders 2 for Wii U. And that was the first experience of this programmers with Wii U.

It seems Ubisoft employees earns much money ... or they are a lot of slower than the Darksiders 2 programmers.

If these ports are not simple ports but extended for Wii U, the 1 Million Euro could be possible, but for a straight port this is hilarious.

Vigil Games, the developers of Darksiders, said that they needed those weeks and programmers to have the game/engine running on WiiU in a basic enough form to be playable. That "basic enough form" is a way to say that the graphics were very basic (no colors or details, just blocks that moved in a blocky background), no effects, no music, etc.

It was far from being a complete port.