Picko said: "At the end of the day, my theory starts with the hypothesis that developers are rationally responding to market incentives, whereas everyone else is out there loosely referring to conspiracy theories and assuming companies must be insane. Conspiracy theories are a highly unlikely event and if possible the mass insanity of game developers is even less likely (in fact its absurd). The answer has to lie with there being screwed up incentives for Wii developers and this is likely to be the case whether Wii gamers wish to believe it or not. Just don't expect there to be a huge increase in the quality of third party developed games any time soon, you'll just end up disappointed."
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Please, just stop. If you don't work in the industry, please stop telling people what the industry is doing. You're sounding as ignorant as fanboys on Gamestop. How can you suggest that there will be no increase in 3rd party games' quality. Because Ubisoft said so? They are one company, that is all. You expect them to be the pied piper of the industry, leading only crappy game development for the Wii? You know what will happen? Their Wii games will flop, and then they'll cry and say its Nintendo's fault somehow, while other developers succeed.
You chose to ignore my earlier comment, so I repost.
- A crappy Wii game might break 100k, resulting in sales of maybe 3 mil dollars, with a production cost of 1-2 mil, making a profit of 1 mil.
-A AAA Wii game will sell over 1 mil units, resulting in sales of maybe 30 mil dollars, with a production cost of 5-8 mil, making a profit of 22-25 mil dollars.
Last I checked 22 mil > 1 mil. Thus, developers have more to gain by making better quality titles. Besides, as a developer, I've witnessed the pain of having a game torn apart by rabid critics. No developer wants that shame upon them, unless they really have lost the desire to develop.
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