Red Steel Costs 12 Million Dollars

According to Ubisoft, Red Steel will cost them approximately $12.75 million to develop. The game will launch with the Nintendo Wii, and include 13 hours of gameplay in singleplayer mode, plus a secret multiplayer mode, not yet announced.

Although $13 million is still quite a sum, it is nothing compared to what it takes for an Xbox360 or PS3 game. Red Steel for the 360 or PS3 would cost Ubisoft at least $25-35 million to develop. And that’s a rather conservative estimate; THQ president Brian Farrell said that Wii development costs are only a quarter of the price it costs to develop for its more advanced rivals. Low development costs are going to bode well for Nintendo. Let the games come!

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Best. Mario. Ever

The votes are in! Our last poll asked you guys what was the best Mario title ever and you guys have decided the winner. Super Mario 3 seems to be the Mario title of choice, followed closely by Super Mario 64 and Super Mario World. Thanks to all that voted.

Well gamers- another day, another poll. This one asks how many titles are you going to get for the Nintendo Wii launch. Have fun and cast your vote. I too will be voting later tonight. If anyone out there has a poll that they would like to see, either e-mail me or put it in the comment section and it will be created. Game ON and thanks for swinging by.

EA Loves Nintendo

EA has recently acknowledged their lack of support for Nintendo’s phenomenal DS, and too much support for Sony’s PSP. The strong performance of the DS has made EA’s executives reconsider the priorities on the handheld market. EA COO David Gardner says:

There’s no doubt that EA has historically bet more on PSP. I think we were excited by the technology, but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun. We must never forget that what we need to focus on is fun and so EA is putting more effort behind DS games and creative ones that really take advantage of the hardware.

My Thoughts:
It is great to see a very strong 3rd party such as EA, coming around and realizing that the gaming public wants fun. The DS was built around the experience of playing and not on graphics alone. I really beleive that the Wii will do the same and is going to put Nintendo “back on the map”.

Is Nintendo about to Shoot the Moon?

The following story was from LoyalN. We are doing a pair of “guest” post and we are honored to have him write this quality story for our site. Thanks again LoyalN and make sure all of you visit his great site. Let him know we sent ya!

“First off I want to thank gameon for letting me guest post. This is a great honor for me. I admire this site a lot. Now on to what I have to say. I have been seeing a lot of posts around the net popping up about Nintendo could lose here or there. I have been reading a lot of doubting Thomas posts lately. I have some fire to throw back.

I want to ask has anyone ever played the card game of hearts? Hearts is a great card game I enjoy. I used to play it with my buddies in drama class all the time. The object is try not to get the queen of spades or the hearts in your hands because they count as points against you. If you get all the hearts in your hand and the queen of spades it’s called shooting the moon. When you do that you give everyone else points but you. That is all you need to know about hearts for now. I ask now is Nintendo about to shoot the moon then or end up with point against them?

Hearts requires strategy to shoot the moon. Nintendo has been doing nothing but strategy to shoot the moon. Let me point out to you why Nintendo is about to shoot the moon. This is for anyone who doubts them after seeing what they did at E3. Nintendo played their first card when they showed us the system. All they showed us then was pretty sleek black box and we were told it would be backward compatible all the way to the nes. Nintendo didn’t show us a controller at that time. That was left in the air for us to wonder what they had up their sleeves.

We soon learned what they had up their sleeves. I still remember seeing that video of the controller. I thought they were out of their minds at first when they said it was motion controlled. Then I started to in vision how it could work and it made perfect sense.

The next card they threw out was a big one. They showed up to E3 and not only came to the show but took it as well. They gave us a few cards at E3 showing us the game line up. They showed how the controller would play with games. They started a stampede and caused lines that took 3 to 4 hours to get through. Last of all but not least they took home awards from the show. That should have been all we needed to see to know they are going somewhere. Never in the history of E3 has any console did what Nintendo did. I had no doubts after E3 and I still don’t that this console is the next big thing.

Nintendo still has few cards to play but so far just like the game of hearts if you start out right you can almost tell at the end that you are going to shoot the moon. Nintendo has the card to play now of price and launch date.

Then the card of launching itself. If the Wii can sell on the market without a big problem of shortages or problems with the consoles themselves they will be sitting pretty. I see the games coming already and with the third party support they have gained they can really go places. The Playstation 3 already is seems to be facing shortage issues. I may be wrong there but the ps2 had problems at first out of the gate. The 360 has caught up from it’s shortages now and they seem to have taken care of the overheating problems with the consoles for now.

Nintendo has a good track record of launching without to long of a period of shortages. They also do well on launching systems that don’t have big problems. The only problem the ds lite faced at launch was the crack in the hinge. It’s annoying but it won’t ruin your system. The way I see it Nintendo hasn’t quite shot the moon yet but they are well on their way.

Thanks again to game on and I have one more question to ask. If Bowser had kids in Super Mario bros 3 shouldn’t there be a mrs in Bowser’s life? Last of all but not least whatever happened to the koopa kids? I just want to see if anyone has any answers for me”.

Thanks again LoyalN.