Viper1 on 17 April 2008
| Smidlee said: "2- Game development costs are said to be much lower on the Wii, mainly due to lower cost of developing ED graphical assets vs HD ones." I thought it was because of the fact Wii is basically a upgraded GameCube so developers already familiar with it's hardware. HD in itself doesn't make games more expensive since there are HD games like Super StarDust HD for $10. |
Who you quoted is correct. High resolution textures cost more to draw and render than SD and are a bulk of the increased production cost this generation. Art has alsways been the biggest chunk of production costs.
SSD HD is a downloadable title and therefore you don't have manufacturing, packaging, wharehousing, shipping, distribution, retail margins, etc...
The rEVOLution is not being televised
