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Condor1980 on 01 May 2010

remember it takes 300 people to make a CoD game costing tens of millions in the process and sell just a couple million. Enter Nintendo who require 30 programmers costing thousands and sell hundreds of millions



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Carl on 01 May 2010

I'm actually not surprised by this.

I think THIS year they will want to get MW2 out on Wii, and maximize the sale spotential of the port.

Next year, we may see Black Ops on Wii.



                            

Gintoki on 01 May 2010

Nope; COD:Innocent White ops will come out on Wii



Gamerace on 01 May 2010

I expect Activision would rather do a year late port of the more popular CoD:MW2 than a simultaneous release of CoD:BO which I agree with. MW is higher profile so a year late or no, MW2 Reflex edition would probably sell better than CoD:BO Wii.

Either way, it's guaranteed profit for Activision. Their working on something. Afterall folks, this is Activision? Since when did they ever not milk a franchise to death?



 

Mr Puggsly on 01 May 2010
Bamboleo said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Bamboleo said:
@ Mr. Pugg

Ports on PS3, even being ports, most probably need indeed to sell a million. That's what I said.

And the same way MW Reflex was a port from HD, Black Ops. can also be, hence, even more profitable and doesn't even need to sell that good to turn out profit.

Well obviously recycling content is far cheaper than creating it all from scratch. So I doubt any port needs to sell a million to be profitable.

The PC, PS3, and 360 specs are so similar they can easily share the same game (which is why they often share the same games). But the Wii hardware differs so greatly that it'll need a port specially tailored for it. I guarantee its cheaper to port between HD consoles than it is to bring a HD game to the Wii.

And I guarantee you that a good game (not crap) on PC, PS3 and 360 that sells 2 million (all platforms added) is a flop.

Just the fact of being an HD game, set's a 1 million as the break even mark. For exclusive games, that mark may go higher. For higher profile games, even if being multiplat, 1 million is always the low end to break even in said games.

 

 

 

Depends on your definition of crap. If a game like Yakuza 3 or 4 doesn't need to sell a million to be successful, why does every other HD game need to sell a million?

Maybe some developers spend too much (i.e. the ones that went bankrupt)? Maybe it all depend on the game in question? Maybe a game can be successful without selling a million if it sold well at full price versus the bargain bin?

 

 



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Bamboleo on 01 May 2010
Mr Puggsly said:
Bamboleo said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Bamboleo said:
@ Mr. Pugg

Ports on PS3, even being ports, most probably need indeed to sell a million. That's what I said.

And the same way MW Reflex was a port from HD, Black Ops. can also be, hence, even more profitable and doesn't even need to sell that good to turn out profit.

Well obviously recycling content is far cheaper than creating it all from scratch. So I doubt any port needs to sell a million to be profitable.

The PC, PS3, and 360 specs are so similar they can easily share the same game (which is why they often share the same games). But the Wii hardware differs so greatly that it'll need a port specially tailored for it. I guarantee its cheaper to port between HD consoles than it is to bring a HD game to the Wii.

And I guarantee you that a good game (not crap) on PC, PS3 and 360 that sells 2 million (all platforms added) is a flop.

Just the fact of being an HD game, set's a 1 million as the break even mark. For exclusive games, that mark may go higher. For higher profile games, even if being multiplat, 1 million is always the low end to break even in said games.

 

 

 

Depends on your definition of crap. If a game like Yakuza 3 or 4 doesn't need to sell a million to be successful, why does every other HD game need to sell a million?

Maybe some developers spend too much (i.e. the ones that went bankrupt)? Maybe it all depend on the game in question? Maybe a game can be successful without selling a million if it sold well at full price versus the bargain bin?

 

 

I'm talking about the average game. Of course there's games that may rarely go below that mark in the same way some Wii game may have to sell over a million to be profitable, with super mario galaxy being an example of that.

A crappy game from HD game?

http://www.metacritic.com/games/xbox360/scores/

http://www.metacritic.com/games/ps3/scores/

 

Feel free to choose, below 60 might be considered a crappy game. Got more on 360 that on PS3. (didn't know about that one)



Bamboleo on 01 May 2010
Gintoki said:
Nope; COD:Innocent White ops will come out on Wii

I could see this coming...



Mr Puggsly on 01 May 2010
Bamboleo said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Bamboleo said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Bamboleo said:
@ Mr. Pugg

Ports on PS3, even being ports, most probably need indeed to sell a million. That's what I said.

And the same way MW Reflex was a port from HD, Black Ops. can also be, hence, even more profitable and doesn't even need to sell that good to turn out profit.

Well obviously recycling content is far cheaper than creating it all from scratch. So I doubt any port needs to sell a million to be profitable.

The PC, PS3, and 360 specs are so similar they can easily share the same game (which is why they often share the same games). But the Wii hardware differs so greatly that it'll need a port specially tailored for it. I guarantee its cheaper to port between HD consoles than it is to bring a HD game to the Wii.

And I guarantee you that a good game (not crap) on PC, PS3 and 360 that sells 2 million (all platforms added) is a flop.

Just the fact of being an HD game, set's a 1 million as the break even mark. For exclusive games, that mark may go higher. For higher profile games, even if being multiplat, 1 million is always the low end to break even in said games.

 

 

 

Depends on your definition of crap. If a game like Yakuza 3 or 4 doesn't need to sell a million to be successful, why does every other HD game need to sell a million?

Maybe some developers spend too much (i.e. the ones that went bankrupt)? Maybe it all depend on the game in question? Maybe a game can be successful without selling a million if it sold well at full price versus the bargain bin?

 

 

I'm talking about the average game. Of course there's games that may rarely go below that mark in the same way some Wii game may have to sell over a million to be profitable, with super mario galaxy being an example of that.

A crappy game from HD game?

http://www.metacritic.com/games/xbox360/scores/

http://www.metacritic.com/games/ps3/scores/

 

Feel free to choose, below 60 might be considered a crappy game. Got more on 360 that on PS3. (didn't know about that one)

Well how am I supposed to know the budget of each game? If you got that information please share. My guess is plenty of HD games don't need to sell a million to make a profit. Because I'm sure most developers are smart enough to know most of those games could never sell a million.

The developers that couldn't figure that out don't exist anymore.



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puffy on 01 May 2010
Gamerace said:
I expect Activision would rather do a year late port of the more popular CoD:MW2 than a simultaneous release of CoD:BO which I agree with. MW is higher profile so a year late or no, MW2 Reflex edition would probably sell better than CoD:BO Wii.

Either way, it's guaranteed profit for Activision. Their working on something. Afterall folks, this is Activision? Since when did they ever not milk a franchise to death?

LMAO, well we all know what this game will be known as if it stinks xD



 

uno on 01 May 2010

everyone needs to chillax.

There are moderators on the Activision MWR that are suggesting that it is coming.