This is what I meant. That user just twists facts presented to avoid actual discussion.

are you referring to yourself? cause your post history indicates it.

On Topic: Procastino, i agree with you that having a game on the Wii won't necessarily make it more successful than on the HD consoles, even if its 1/2 of the budget of an HD game, because they have to compete with shovelware selling at half its price, and Nintendo Itself.

500k is a figure you've quoted from an analyst and if you've been on this site any great length of time you'd know how much disdain we hold for them here. I'll cede the point that $40 per game for a self developed/selfpublished game is a bit high but the laughably weak American dollar the past 4 or 5 years has meant that it isnt all that much lower as a worldwide average.

Mathtime: I've worked at gamestation for the past 2 years and from order forms and general management stuff i know we buy Wii games from the publisher at £25 per unit and sell them for £34.99-£39.99. The weak dollar (at the moment $1.66 to the pound) means we pay $41.50 per game. On a self published/self developed game which is what i take the quote from Ubisoft to mean you could expect them to take a total of 75-80% rest goes to hardware licenses and various other licenses required. That woud mean from the UK's biggest specialty retailer they take (using the lower figure of 75%) $31.12 per unit. I'm assuming now that other shops/supermarkets have the same deal with publishers as the lowest i've seen a new game has been £26 for MW2 from the major supermarkets in an effort to draw in people.

Eurozone i'm a little more fuzzy on but even if we say 25 euro per game that retailers pay, at the current exchange rate ($1.55 to the euro) it won't be all that much lower at $29.06 take after conversions and licenses.

Back to the analyst quote you do seem to suffer from selective reading disorder as you can clearly see (I hope) that it is $10mil or more and then gives an arbitrary number without anything linking it to a figure of total publishing costs ie. dev costs+ads+discs+cases+printing which is what I have done in my example of a $10mil dollar game.

Tyson, Mecha Birdo and Dracula down. Starting to become as crazy as Leoj used to be

No platform magically makes games sell better or worse. A larger userbase always helps, as it delivers a higher potential audience, but actual sales will always rest on content and promotion. If you have shitty content and don't promote, you'll bomb no matter where you go.