Wow, that makes no sense. High development costs on the Wii are a problem? Besides what LordTheNightKnight just said I would like to add that there is no proof of that being actually true. The highest budget I have ever heard of being spent on a Wii game NOT made by Nintendo was Red Steel at $10 million, and that made its money back. For pete's sake, it cost more to advertise the first Left 4 Dead.

Maybe two other games could've possibly matched that budget, and I'm thinking of FFCC: The Crystal Bearers due to Square Enix's normally wasteful business practices and Monster Hunter 3.

Developers/Publishers have used every unfounded excuse in the book not to support the Wii. High budget games cannot fail when they are not even being made.

Yeah it's the thought that Wii owners aren't very interesting in the type of games being made for PS3 and 360. Something like CoD: WaW released on all three consoles at the same time and the Wii version sold a lot less. This mindset may not be correct but it stems from something. Going Wii exclusive may be seen as a huge loss for developers who want to tap into the more hardcore base that the HD twins offer. I'd assume the other reason is that top tier developers don't like the Wii, as many have said.

I guess that makes it a problem doesn't it? This is what the IGN article is saying, developers wont put a budget behind unique ideas. That's the problem. And as you said developers wont do it for Wii because they feel it's risky. Why do I get this feeling that you didn't even care to read what I said.

I agree. Some Wii owners seem to adore conspiracy theories.

mmm... budget on wii titles is an interesting topic, but as far as i see its pretty messed up

At the beginning, Wii didnt get much support, so few games had decent budgets, this didnt allow the wii to shine as much as it could, it never got enough support on "hardcore" games, and that didnt start to change untl the last year, this year for example we got a good amount of "hardcore" games, all of them with low budget and in many cases small developers too, Ex: The Conduit,Deadly Creatures, Muramasa etc... few of this games are actually succesful and as a result developers are scared to try again

The problem is, they didnt try to make really good games from the very beginning, as a result few people is actually willing to buy those few games, (when developers are scared to try, gamers are even more scared to waste their money), and those who do, expect people to buy low quality games

On the other side, there is also a tendency in developers to aim at niche public trough the wii o__o wtf?

IGN you used to be cool. Now your just stuck on stupid.

Eh... they were just making points for the next generation of consoles, many of them points that Wii was founded on in 2006. And yeah, they took some jabs at Wii in the process (Oh no! He's having fun on the balance board! Blasphemy!).

But like Kantor said, it was just IGN AU trying to be funny and clever... (why is trying to be clever so darn important in gaming journalism?)

Past time?

....It's been four freaking years.

And Jesus, it's only been three since the PS3 was launched!

Oh God. I'd cry.

Could you clean up that post? It is very hard to understand.