@Laoldar, Nintendo keeps pointing out lower development costs, making the Wii sound like the ideal system to develop for: low costs - high profit. But what I've never read anywhere underlined is that this reasoning has it's traps too. If it were true everybody would for example be making 30$ cellphones because it's easier to get into that. In practice however some companies prefer the higher costs because of a) higher margins b) less people in that league. Same with Wii: at the beginning there were (relativelly) almost no developers, so these statements were true, but as time passes on a game developed with such a 'low' budget for the Wii will have to compete with _many_ such games, while one of those super high budget games released for an expensive platform will have a more limited number of competitors. How many games for example can you name this holiday that sported an open world like Assassin's Creed? I can't think of any. Meanwhile there's a number of minigame collections competing on the lower budgets as far as i know.
For those poised to downbid me: why? I'm trying to help balanced views for us traders by underlining a point of view that I believe is valid and have tried to give reasons. If you have contrary opinions I believe it would be right to discuss and give arguments in that direction, not just downbid soembody who's saying something that's not cool to say at the moment.
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Nintendo keeps pointing out lower development costs, making the Wii sound like the ideal system to develop for: low costs - high profit. But what I've never read anywhere underlined is that this reasoning has it's traps too. If it were true everybody would for example be making 30$ cellphones because it's easier to get into that. In practice however some companies prefer the higher costs because of a) higher margins b) less people in that league. Same with Wii: at the beginning there were (relativelly) almost no developers, so these statements were true, but as time passes on a game developed with such a 'low' budget for the Wii will have to compete with _many_ such games, while one of those super high budget games released for an expensive platform will have a more limited number of competitors. How many games for example can you name this holiday that sported an open world like Assassin's Creed? I can't think of any. Meanwhile there's a number of minigame collections competing on the lower budgets as far as i know.
For those poised to downbid me: why? I'm trying to help balanced views for us traders by underlining a point of view that I believe is valid and have tried to give reasons. If you have contrary opinions I believe it would be right to discuss and give arguments in that direction, not just downbid soembody who's saying something that's not cool to say at the moment.