The confirmed Wii games by HVS are;

The Grinder, Gladiator, The Conduit, Animales de la Muerte and Astroboy (also being developed for PSP, PS2, DS).

So HVS, with around 130 employees is developing five games (three of which at least are likely to be decent).

Doesn't this say something about the number of man hours needed to make a decent Wii game?

Astro Boy could be decent, too. After all, the last Astro Boy game (for the Game Boy Advance) was apparently fantastic.

Then again, I think this one's based on the upcoming movie...

Anyway, I really respect High Voltage and I'm looking forward to The Conduit and The Grinder.

It is less man hours than it is talent and desire.

Yeah they're putting some real effort into these games, The Conduit is on its way in a couple of weeks, Animales is now going to be a retail game but I believe it's still set for the end of this year, Gladiator will be early next year and The Grinder late next year, all of which will have at least a year of development behind them.

I have no idea about their multiplat game though since I haven't even read anything on it.

You said it dude

And actually Animales looks pretty damned awesome too (note that it is no longer going to be WiiWare though)

http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/869/869222p2.html

Is there any news about animales de la muerte???

The Gladiator A.D. will be a great game but I do not think it will get the sales that they are expecting. But thats just me. A lot of gamers are not interested in that game. Unless they put some kind of online support and focus more on RPG I do not think it will sell.

The Grinder on the other side looks awesome and will sell a lot.

Just because they have that many games that are unreleased doesn't mean that they have that many games that have full internal development teams working on them at any point in time ...

Many software projects (including videogames) tend to have long periods of planning and intital set up which requires a lot of work from a few members of the team and almost no work from most members of a team; and there is often a long period at the end of a project which is centered around testing and debugging (and localization in the case of videogames) which will, once again, require a lot of work from a few members of the team and almost no work from most members of a team. Good management will try to complete the planning stage of a project just as the testing and debugging stage of another project begins in order to keep employee downtime to a minimum.

On top of this, there are a wide variety of reasons why a company would choose to outsource work that they can, and it is possible that High Voltage has choosen to outsource some of its work.

Now, there is lots of evidence that supports that the Wii requires smaller development teams to work for less time to produce a game that is similar in scope to HD console games. All I am saying is that the size of the company and the number of unreleased games don't demonstrate that.

I have a feeling they'll start making FPS's considering that's what most people are liking (Conduit and Grinder).