I believe selling digital, even through steam, the publisher gets more money than a copy sold at a retail-store.
Somewhere here in these forums there was a breakdown of the sales retail vs digital.

Higher budgets? That doesn't look good .

If only there were a hardware manufacturer that didn't develop very powerful hardware, instead investing in, say, a new input system to broaden the possibilities without adding much of a burden. And if only that new input system were a part of the hardware in such a way that the costs would be absorbed by the manufacturer, not the 3rd party devs.

If only.

How much do you want to bet that if a company did that, people would call it a gimmick.

How much do you want to bet?

As already mentioned, this is quite different than what several 3rd parties stated, 10-15% increase in budgets. Not sure if they're having difficult time jumping to new tools, or just bragging how much effort goes into next gen. ;)

I think pokoko meant paid DLC, which is an additional revenue for the devs.

This is how industries are destroyed.

They are doing nothing to prevent the inevitable.

And Nintendo will be like:

"Aww shit guys, not again T_T"

now we know why Nintendo is having such a hard time getting their games finished and released- It takes a lot more resources/capital/man power and Nintendo is trying to get by on as little cash as possible so they can avoid posting more losses and/or at least posting much smaller losses- They have the money to invest in this console generation but they sure have been reluctant to do so- a short term decision that is going to hurt them longer term-

They did WW HD in 6 months, can't wait to see its sales legs.