Cerebralbore101 said:
@Bolded: BotW has sold over 15 million units (Edit: Wii U + Switch Sales) despite almost never going on sale. Meanwhile Witcher 3 has reached a little over 20 million sales while being up to 70% off. So your whole logic about going multiplatform leading to more reliable sales and a bigger budget doesn't add up. Horizon, and God of War were both just as ambitious as Witcher 3 despite being exclusives. So there's no reason to think Witcher 3 wouldn't have been as ambitious as an exclusive. BotW is vastly superior to Witcher 3 despite being "less ambitious". For your theory about MS games to hold any weight MS would have had to have great first party before focusing on their play anywhere push. Nah, the theory still works if their overall review scores plummet around the same time, or shortly after their play anywhere push. |
And actually when a game is designed to push consoles then they may put more money and time than they would if they needed to profit on the SW itself. He likes to bring how much Sony fell compared to PS3 where they had 6 of 10 making loses 2 breaking even and just 2 heavily profiting. That out there show how a platform holder making games to push HW may increase investment in a SW compared to someone that is selling everywhere.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."