Wiz-Bang Games Is a New Video Game Maker for the Latest

Essay

Wiz-Bang Games is a new video game maker for the latest game console. As a new game maker, they have not established a reputation of providing quality games. The marginal cost to Wiz-Bang for manufacturing games is: The market price for low-quality games is $20. The market price for high-quality games is $65. If Wiz-Bang sells their product in the low quality market, calculate their producer surplus. If Wiz-Bang sells their product in the high quality market, calculate their producer surplus. If Wiz-Bang spends $12,500 on marketing and packaging, they will be perceived as a high quality producer of video games. Should Wiz-Bang spend the $12,500 to provide a signal to video game consumers of producing high quality games?