How much would a top-of-the-line Wii game cost?

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Soriku said:

NintendoMan said:
Probably between 10-15 million

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PS2 games managed to cost 20 mil. And if what damkira said is true, then TP was 10 mil and that hasn't used even 1% of the Wii's power. Also, the Wii is like 3x stronger than the GC and a lot more complex due to the control scheme. 10-15 mil is too little.

a piece by piece response.

you have to keep in mind that developers are using dated tech and smaller teams to make most wii games. dated tech meaning that it's really a small jump over what the xbox could do. xbox games were expensive in 2001 but would be cheap (relatively speaking) today. 10-15mil would probably be a high end title on the wii.

also, the wii is (at most) 2x more powerful then the gc. nintendo said so themselves. by comparison (from a development standpoint) the ps3 is something like 30x more powerful then the ps2 and runs in 1080p on blu ray disks. so, the difference in costs for high end games is most likely huge.