Shin'en: "all our games, even on WiiWare were a financial success"

[vivster]

the_dengle said:

vivster said:
If you produce your games for 2 dollars, you can make a hefty 1 dollar profit. If Nintendo gives you 3 dollars to put it on Wii U.

Are you suggesting that zero people buy Shin'en's games, and that Nintendo pays them $1.50 on the dollar to develop all of their games?

That would make Shin'en employees of Nintendo, and it would mean all of their games are published by Nintendo. We would know if either of those things were the case.

So, actually, Nintendo pays them nothing to make games for the Wii U, and more than enough people buy their games for them to make back their development costs, and Nintendo also profits from this relationship by collecting royalties. This is a pretty normal, healthy publisher-platform holder relationship.

TL;DR version: If you produce your game for $330,000, you can make a hefty $1,000,000 profit. If you sell over 100,000 copies of your game to Nintendo gamers at $15 apiece.

Actually I meant it literally. But nevermind.