Oyvoyvoyv on 06 September 2008
| ph4nt said: Intelligent Systems is a great studio i just wish Nintendo would give them higher budgets for their games, when you look at most of their games they are excellent, but you can tell the dev costs are extremely low (FE:RD for example). I think if they had budgets as high as Mario and Zelda, the game quality would be unsurpassed. |
No, there's a reason the titles are low budget.
The entire company is at around 100-110 man, and they give out ~ 2.5 games a year. Retro studious has 60-70 people, and they give out ~ 0.5 games each year.
The IS games are made quickly, and do simply not have the same overall quality as Nintendo's main attraction games. They're as fun and good, but they don't have the same polish.
They're making games 3 times pr person than any other Nintendo dev, and 5-6 times faster than most.
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261
That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS
