Is Sega finished with console retail? (GI.biz article)

[kitler53]

JayWood2010 said:

kitler53 said:

JayWood2010 said:

I wasnt saying it wouldnt cost anything.  Im saying it wouldnt increase by 100%.  It would likely make the risk slightly higher but porting a game is much cheaper than developing them.  According to Ubisoft they ported all their games for less than 1m to wiiu which is a tiny fraction of what those games cost to make

http://wiiudaily.com/2012/07/ubisoft-wii-u-games-cost-less-1-million-port/

but that's ubisoft a massive publisher that (almost) only does multiplats.  ubisoft atlus is not.

and i'm saying porting isn't always easy.   read up on the difficulties ND had with TLoU:remastered.  if the orginal work isn't coded with multiplat in mind sometimes it can be more work to port than it is to just start over from scratch.  i'm being very serious here,.. a port might be 1% of the original budget or 10% or even 200%.  code is a tricky beast and functional code doesn't always mean good code.