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Nem on 29 June 2016

It's pretty much guaranteed.

For a 5 year development cycle, that was incredibly cheap development.



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Aielyn on 29 June 2016
Luke888 said:

He also mentioned that the development team for the game is more than 100 people, now we know that is the highest number of developer on a Nintendo game after what Aonuma said, plus, we know that Monolith has to be working on at least one other game since they have 200+ employees !

Edit: Also Shinya Takahashi mentioned that they will be re-using assets from TLOZ: BotW in other games, so I hope we will se another Zelda game, using the same engine (with small improvements) 2/3 years after NX's launch ala Majora's Mask !

BotW seems to take the quality well beyond what we saw in XCX. Perhaps the next Xenoblade game will use the same engine - it would be the perfect engine to use, given that "open air" is the obvious style to use for Xenoblade 3.



KLXVER on 29 June 2016
Miyamotoo said:
I dont see this game selling less than 5m in any case so that means at least $150-200m profit just from this Zelda. :)

If a game of this scope only needs 2 million to make a profit, makes me wonder how Nintendo ever loses any money since most of their games do over 1M and arent nearly as big as BOTW...



wombat123 on 29 June 2016
Aielyn said:
Luke888 said:

He also mentioned that the development team for the game is more than 100 people, now we know that is the highest number of developer on a Nintendo game after what Aonuma said, plus, we know that Monolith has to be working on at least one other game since they have 200+ employees !

Edit: Also Shinya Takahashi mentioned that they will be re-using assets from TLOZ: BotW in other games, so I hope we will se another Zelda game, using the same engine (with small improvements) 2/3 years after NX's launch ala Majora's Mask !

BotW seems to take the quality well beyond what we saw in XCX. Perhaps the next Xenoblade game will use the same engine - it would be the perfect engine to use, given that "open air" is the obvious style to use for Xenoblade 3.

There's a ton of franchises that could use the BotW engine effectively.  I personally want them to use it for a new Metroid game because the lowered development time using a pre-made engine is probably the only shot a less financially successful Nintendo franchise like Metroid has of getting a large-scale game of around BotW's size and scope.  Plus, even if Retro is sick of Metroid, maybe they'll change their tune if they find out they can make a more open Metroid game in same the vein of BotW.



Dulfite on 29 June 2016
Jumpin said:
Dulfite said:

*are

Zelda ARE D00MED!

lol you said Nintendo and Zelda is doom. It would be are. I hate myself for doing this, I'll show myself out now back to the land of ignorance and bliss.



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JWeinCom on 29 June 2016
tbone51 said:
Lawlight said:
2M to get back production costs. What about marketing?

An extra 200k-400k? Looks good considering the game will do over 5mil so its all profit

That'd be an awfully small marketing budget for a game of this scale, particularly as it's going to be used to push the NX.  Even the E3 booth probably cost them 50K figuring very conservatively.



Aielyn on 29 June 2016
wombat123 said:
Aielyn said:

BotW seems to take the quality well beyond what we saw in XCX. Perhaps the next Xenoblade game will use the same engine - it would be the perfect engine to use, given that "open air" is the obvious style to use for Xenoblade 3.

There's a ton of franchises that could use the BotW engine effectively.  I personally want them to use it for a new Metroid game because the lowered development time using a pre-made engine is probably the only shot a less financially successful Nintendo franchise like Metroid has of getting a large-scale game of around BotW's size and scope.  Plus, even if Retro is sick of Metroid, maybe they'll change their tune if they find out they can make a more open Metroid game in same the vein of BotW.

Yes, but Monolith have been involved in development of BotW. So they're an obvious candidate for using the engine.



contestgamer on 29 June 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Should do that fairly easily. Nice to see some companies still know how to budget their games properly, others could learn a thing or two from this...

No, its not nice, bigger budget = better game. If this game nbeeded to sell 5 mill to break even you can bet it'd be a much better game



yvanjean on 29 June 2016
Miyamotoo said:
I dont see this game selling less than 5m in any case so that means at least $150-200m profit just from this Zelda. :)

Wow, stick to gaming your accounting make no sense. Huge difference between revenue and profit. If the game been in production for 5 years, the cost is much higher than initially expected.

 

$60 is the retail price. Most retail store have a 30% mark up. Nintendo would receive only $42-45 per copies sold. 5M * 43.5 = 217.5M Revenue. Now they have to pay for all costs incurred to get the game to customer. (Marketing, Production [5 years worth of costs], Physical Packaging, etc.)  



d21lewis on 29 June 2016

And that's how you do it, folks. A reasonable figure and(what should be) a high quality title. Some devs stretch themselves too thin and have to overcome hide budgets. They should take note.