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The_vagabond7 said:
man, I walked into this saloon and viper is just kicking ass and taking names. Kinda makes me afraid to order a drink.

Umm, I'm all for more support and expect to see some at E3 and TGS....continue kicking ass, I'm going to get a whiskey sour.

 Order up.  My bottles of Bombay Sapphire gin and Macallan 18 yo single malt scotch are looking enticing right about now.



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Ok so every week we get explained how it is cheaper and faster to develop for the Wii yet all over this thread people quote development times for Wii AAA titles that are equal to HD consoles AAA development times...

So which is which ?
Is it only cheaper and faster to develop shovelware on the Wii, but the real games take as long to make as those on HD consoles or what ?



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PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

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Ail said:
Ok so every week we get explained how it is cheaper and faster to develop for the Wii yet all over this thread people quote development times for Wii AAA titles that are equal to HD consoles AAA development times...

So which is which ?
Is it only cheaper and faster to develop shovelware on the Wii, but the real games take as long to make as those on HD consoles or what ?

Viper it´s time to bite again, I let you have the honours of this prey.



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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird  and people take Prozac  to make it normal.

If laughing is the best medicine and marijuana makes you laugh

Is marijuana the best medicine?

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

“If any creator has not played Mario, then they’re probably not a good creator. That’s something I can say with 100 percent confidence. Mario is, for game creators, the development bible.

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Let me play Devil's Advocate here. I do think better third party support is coming to the Wii -- it's almost impossible that this won't be the case -- but I'm not sure it's going to be the AAA, "everyone abandons the PS3/360 and moves to the Wii" exodus some might hope for, either. Let me enumerate the reasons why.

1) Engines. Companies have invested milliions of dollars into PS3/360 engines, and having now done so, the costs associated with PS3/360 development should be modestly lower. In addition, there is the psychological effect of sunk costs, whether that effect is valid or not.

2) Unclear demographics and marketing. Precisely because of the "Blue Ocean" strategy and Wii's ability to draw in a variety of players, it's often unclear to publishers (who green light titles) what games will or will not work on the Wii. We've seen hits and misses across the board. By contrast, the demographics of the PS3/360 are very well understood -- it's basically the same people who played Halo/Madden/GTA/MGS last generation, primarily composed of 16-30 year old males. Publishers like clear, well defined demographics that they can understand and predict; they do not like making games for an unclear audience with an unclear result. In addition, the marketing firms for these companies have spent decades honing their marketing for the aforementioned demographic; I think many are completely lost when trying to figure out how to market to young girls, for example, or even what they'd enjoy, let alone figuring out how to appeal to both boys and girls simultaneously.

3) Developers. I think a lot of Western developers are not interested in working on the Wii. Many of these developers grew up developing on the PC, and as such, they directly associate better technology/more horsepower with better games. As such, many of them view the Wii as compromising their vision even further than the PS3/360 already do.

If you'd like a condensed version of the above: the PS3/360 sell to well understood markets with well understood tastes that these publishers already know how to market to. In addition, many established Western developers in particular put heavy emphasis on technical horsepower, and would prefer to work on a system with more horsepower whenever possible. The Wii has unclear demographic breakdowns with unclear tastesthat require new marketing tactics.

Many publishers would rather spend 3x as much to produce modest profits on the PS3/360, because there is a 95% likelihood of success. In comparison, the Wii is 1/3 as expensive and has a chance to produce much greater profits, but each individual project may only have, say, a 50% chance of success. Looking at EA as a premier example, they built their entire empire on risk management, by selling racing games, shooting games, and sports games to predictable, stable audiences they understood and can rely on. The whole point of the Wii is to be unpredictable and less reliant on old demographics, so they aren't exactly built for Wii success.

 



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vaio said:
Ail said:
Ok so every week we get explained how it is cheaper and faster to develop for the Wii yet all over this thread people quote development times for Wii AAA titles that are equal to HD consoles AAA development times...

So which is which ?
Is it only cheaper and faster to develop shovelware on the Wii, but the real games take as long to make as those on HD consoles or what ?

Viper it´s time to bite again, I let you have the honours of this prey.


Typical number we see from Wii fans is that it is 1/3rd cheaper to develop on the Wii.

This would mean that it requires 3 times less man-hour to develop a Wii game than an HD game.

Now some of the development time can't be compressed ( like the QA period at the end).

But anyway based on those numbers you would expect AAA Wii titles to go faster to develop. 

 



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Ail said:
Ok so every week we get explained how it is cheaper and faster to develop for the Wii yet all over this thread people quote development times for Wii AAA titles that are equal to HD consoles AAA development times...

So which is which ?
Is it only cheaper and faster to develop shovelware on the Wii, but the real games take as long to make as those on HD consoles or what ?

I don't think anyone has said that it takes the same ammount of time to produce a game on a HD console as it does to produce a similar game for the Wii. Now, with that said ...

Developing for the Wii is very similar in many ways to developing for the PS2/XBox/Gamecube, and it wasn't that uncommon for games to take 18 to 24 months to develop for a development team of 40 to 60 people; in extreme cases the development teams ballooned to 100 people, or the game took 30 months to complete, which expanded the development budget to (roughly) $20 Million.

In order to get a game on the scale as the big budget games of the previous generation (Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid) a Wii game would still take around 2 years to develop; where their PS3 counterparts take 3 years or more, using a much larger development team.

Edit: Remember that games like Metal Gear Solid 4, Grand Theft Auto 4, and Gran Turismo 5 all have development teams well above 100 people (some even have been rumored to be close to 200 people) and have taken close to 3 years (or more) to develop.



I never thought that they would abandon the PS3/360 but merely put the big franchises (not all) on the Wii too.



Vaio - "Bury me at Milanello"      R.I.P AC Milan

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird  and people take Prozac  to make it normal.

If laughing is the best medicine and marijuana makes you laugh

Is marijuana the best medicine?

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

“If any creator has not played Mario, then they’re probably not a good creator. That’s something I can say with 100 percent confidence. Mario is, for game creators, the development bible.

Bodhesatva said:

Let me play Devil's Advocate here. I do think better third party support is coming to the Wii -- it's almost impossible that this won't be the case -- but I'm not sure it's going to be the AAA, "everyone abandons the PS3/360 and moves to the Wii" exodus some might hope for, either. Let me enumerate the reasons why.

1) Engines. Companies have invested milliions of dollars into PS3/360 engines, and having now done so, the costs associated with PS3/360 development should be modestly lower. In addition, there is the psychological effect of sunk costs, whether that effect is valid or not.

2) Unclear demographics and marketing. Precisely because of the "Blue Ocean" strategy and Wii's ability to draw in a variety of players, it's often unclear to publishers (who green light titles) what games will or will not work on the Wii. We've seen hits and misses across the board. By contrast, the demographics of the PS3/360 are very well understood -- it's basically the same people who played Halo/Madden/GTA/MGS last generation, primarily composed of 16-30 year old males. Publishers like clear, well defined demographics that they can understand and predict; they do not like making games for an unclear audience with an unclear result. In addition, the marketing firms for these companies have spent decades honing their marketing for the aforementioned demographic; I think many are completely lost when trying to figure out how to market to young girls, for example, or even what they'd enjoy, let alone figuring out how to appeal to both boys and girls simultaneously.

3) Developers. I think a lot of Western developers are not interested in working on the Wii. Many of these developers grew up developing on the PC, and as such, they directly associate better technology/more horsepower with better games. As such, many of them view the Wii as compromising their vision even further than the PS3/360 already do.

If you'd like a condensed version of the above: the PS3/360 sell to well understood markets with well understood tastes that these publishers already know how to market to. In addition, many established Western developers in particular put heavy emphasis on technical horsepower, and would prefer to work on a system with more horsepower whenever possible. The Wii has unclear demographic breakdowns with unclear tastesthat require new marketing tactics.

Many publishers would rather spend 3x as much to produce modest profits on the PS3/360, because there is a 95% likelihood of success. In comparison, the Wii is 1/3 as expensive and has a chance to produce much greater profits, but each individual project may only have, say, a 50% chance of success. Looking at EA as a premier example, they built their entire empire on risk management, by selling racing games, shooting games, and sports games to predictable, stable audiences they understood and can rely on. The whole point of the Wii is to be unpredictable and less reliant on old demographics, so they aren't exactly built for Wii success.

 


 That old market shrank by 19% last year.Clearly these people don't understand.

Plus the blockbuster mentality of catering to demographics is exactly why third parties are failing on the Wii.



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