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LordTheNightKnight on 21 March 2009

Is this the guy that called Nintendo's strategy "short term", or was it another guy?



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Acevil on 21 March 2009

I had a good laught, but i wonder how many people believed him, and in the end that is what scares me.



 

CONMAN15 on 21 March 2009

I really don't think that sega would fund madworld if it needed to sell 2-3 million copies to turn a profit. It probably needs to sell like 300,000 copies or something. lol



Support good third party games on wii. Buy games like house of the dead overkill, de blob, madworld, the conduit and boom blox.

amp316 on 21 March 2009

Yeah. Sega continues to release tons of games because they need to break even. Let's hope that Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games sells a few more million since they're losing so much money on the Wii.



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Voltaire on 21 March 2009

......wow. I honestly cant beleive this guy. Oh, and isnt 'PETZ' more of a DS franchise?




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O-D-C on 21 March 2009

BS



TWRoO on 21 March 2009
shinyuhadouken said:

Pete Wanat:

What we didn't know about Wii:

- Nintendo and Ubi are ONLY companies making money on Wii - Nintendo with the 1st party software and Ubi with the Petz games.
- Wii compared to 360/PS3 is like "a Genesis"
- You'll probably never make your money back if you spend $500k/$600k
- Unless you spend $350k/$500k - you will not see any return on the investment.
- GUARANTEED to lose money if a development is over $2 million
- MadWorld must sell 2-3 million copies to make a profit.
- In order to port a 360/PS3 game to Wii, you will need to make a thats "less than a PS2 game".

 

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Xxain on 21 March 2009

whens Cyber Slap technology gonna be invented???



Naum on 21 March 2009

HaHaHaHa... ohh wait HaHaHaHaHa how F-ing stupid can you get?



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TheSource on 21 March 2009

Almost every project built for the Wii from the ground up (Boom Blox, Rayman, De Blob) seems to perform at least alright (200k+) while almost every project ported to Wii with no thought bombs. The games on Wii which are multiplatform tend to be in between in that the well designed ground up games (GH, Sonics, Lego Star Wars, Rockband, Tiger Woods, Shaun White) perform while the others suffer compared to multi-plat hits.  I'd guess he is a porter.

Even Blast Works probably brought in over $1m in revenue and that game was as niche as it comes and thats basically an update of a couple of free flash games in a prettier package.

Earning less than $600,000 on a Wii game seems almost impossible frankly as even the shittiest of the shit games are going to get purchased by 1/1000 owners by chance, and in the USA for Wii thats like 20,000 people. If you get $30/copy selling to 1/1000 Wii owners you have your $600,000 back. Shooting for 1/100 Wii owners doesn't seem to hard to do though, so I'm not sure why he thinks the 1/1000 rule has to be used. Majesco, Actvision, EA, Sega, Capcom, Ubisoft have all had massive success on the Wii - its not even debatable - the rest of the industry you could a case against, but just about every other publisher has at least a semi-break out hit on Wii like a Game Party or a Taiko Drum Master



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