Eiji Aonuma wants the next Zelda to provide “a unique experience that is beyond your expectations”

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Soleron said:

spemanig said:

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It has nothing to do with being charitable. Wii Sports will never cost as much money to develop as Zelda, but it will always sell more and be exponencially more profatable. Zelda on a Wii fit budget wouldn't sell, and not making a Zelda game would completely alianate an entire audience that won't buy a console with out it. That is obvious. I don't know what kind of point you were trying to prove, but you definitely didn't prove it.

You are a Nintendo exec. You have $50m in capital gained from good sales of Wii Sports.

Do you invest it in:

a) Wii Sports 2, NSMB Wii 2 AND Wii Relax/Vitality Sensor

b) Zelda

Wii Sports is cheaper than Zelda and exponentially more profitable (you said this). AND you can afford to develop the other two games with the budget saved vs Zelda. Therefore Option a) gives a far greater return for the same money invested. Why choose b) at all?

...Because the audience that buys Zelda in NOT the audience that buys Wii Sports. You don't simply ignore an entire consumer audience for an audience you already have. The point of making a business venture is to get as many different people to but your product as possible. Option A) only works for selling software, since your audience has already purchased the hardware. In order to expand and diversify you're install base, you would NEED to invest in Zelda.

You're failed logic is seriously nausia inducing. By your logic, Sony and Microsoft should only be investing in Call of Duty, because it clearly eclipses the sales of games like The Last of Us. Sure, they'll only sell 15 million lifetime sales, but Call of Duty would have a 100% attach rate every year, right? 15 million software units sold every year is worth not expanding you're library to a higher diversity of content that'll sell less and cost more but will sell more hardware and collectively more games, right?

Right.