"Wii Third-Party Struggles Highlighted by May NPD" - GameDaily

[Kasz216]

Smash_Brother said:

Kasz216 said:No i'm talking about the fixed costs of production. It costs more to make and buy blu-ray discs..... etc.

That's part of the reason for the extra $10 as well. Of course this is a bigger deal for the PS3. It's still something to take into consideration. Each platform has different fixed costs of production.

What i'm saying is that i believe none of that extra $10 actually makes it back to the developers and they make the same margin (or VERY close) per copy as they would a Wii game... to where even 5 million copies wouldn't make much difference.

That everything is getting eaten up by the publisher and others basically.

It's also producing HD content that runs up such a huge dev budget.

You have to consider that when every texture, lighting effect, etc. has to be designed at 2X the standard resolution, you have a situation where devs need to spend a great deal more time paying artists to create these textures and effects.

There's also the fact that the PS360 dev kits cost more.

Yeah but those costs aren't fixed.  What Bod was trying to say is that once you get past "cost" the extra copies help... at some point.

Assuming they get any of that extra revenue at 5 million.

So fixed costs are the only ones that matter in that case.  Costs that make profits on one console less then the other.  Like royalty per copy sold, blu-ray disc cost... etc.