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Reggie on Wii costs/future
Reggie on Wii costs/future
Cnet news.com - November 27, 2007
Submitted by Laoldar (182) at 1:09PM PST on November 27, 2007
Reggie talks about the future of the Wii a bit including development costs and how supply shortages are "missed opportunities" because their target audience doesn't want to wait in line overnight.
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1@ixaarii,
Of course, crowding in the market will always be a concern...however, considering that one major failure of the Gamecube was the lack of many 3rd party titles, this is a problem tha Nintendo wouldn't mind that much.
Besides, as a market becomes crowded, quality wins out. Yes, many developers will crowd the Wii...but those who put out quality titles will still find the platform to have advantages. Would a niche title like Trauma Center sell enough to break even on the 360/PS3? I doubt it...yet such a series can do well on the Wii.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]bids
1@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.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 444 ]bids
2Also a few bits of info:
-costs "a few hundred thousand dollars" to develop a DS game, so a company can make a profit on about 100,000 sold
-costs about $5-10 million to develop a Wii game, including marketing
-states that, in contrast, it costs about $20-50 million for a 360/PS3 game, so companies need to sell far more games to turn a profit
-claims that Nintendo had their best week in sales ever 2 weeks ago, but that was then surpassed last week[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]bids
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