| pezus said: The amount of money they would be making is peanuts compared to the money they could be making by just increasing their PSXbox game production instead. |
Depends a lot on the size of the teams. Activision uses 38 people and a year to port CoD games to Wii U (every year the same team). How many PSXbox games could be that same team produce? none. They could distribute them but if you increase a team of 300 developers to 320 you will not improve your output even by 5%. Since the engine was already working for Madden and FIFA, why not just keep a small porting team (hey use the FIFA Wii team and kill that version) and have some presence on the console, later (if required) you will have people with knowledge on the device to work on other games and you will not alienate the loyal Nintendo fans.
The console user base can only increase and nobody is producing a soccer game for it, whoever comes first will take all those users (Konami or EA), why not take advantage if you can do it for a small price.
As a curiosity, did you knew that EA makes almost no money on their madden games? but they keep making them so nobody can claim the license from them.
