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intro94 on 03 May 2010
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contestgamer said:
Khuutra said:
contestgamer said:
Khuutra said:

The "budget" comment was the only part rlevant to my post so it's all I'm responding to.

You're wrong. Super Mario Galaxy was supposed to have cost as much to make as a low-tier HD blockbuster.

And you hope they odn't change the Zelda formula too much, bu you couldn' play through Twilight Princess, which had th formula unchanged from Ocarina of Time? THat makes no sense.

And that`s supposed to be what, big budget? Name me a Nintendo game with a 50+ million dolar budget? Hell we have games in the 60-110 million dollar budget range now, Nintendo isn't even close...

I wish there was a way for you to see how highly I have my left eyebrow raised. It is quite distinguished as far as such expressions go.

"A low-tier HD blockbuster" still costs quite a lot, just not the insane, company-detroying budgets that some developers dip their hands into. I think Galaxy was supposed to have cost 15 million to make, which is ass-over-end insane for a 480p game.

 

That's not insane at all... Remember a game called shenmue? 70 million dollar budget and it's ten years old.

Heck, MGS2 had a budget of 30 million back in 2001. GTA SA had a budget larger than that... 15 million is not a top tier budget. It's not a low budget but I'd put it somewhere in the middle of the two...The fact that it is Nintendo biggest budget game tells me that their average game is in the upper low/ lower medium budget range. Nintendo games are certainly not what I would classify among the top-tier high budget games.

 

"Naughty Dog boss Evan Wells said today that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has the sort of budget most developers only dream of.

The first Uncharted cost $20 million. Wells isn’t about to be short-changed for the sequel, apparently."

Uncharted 2 was one of the most expensive recent HD productions from SONY and it came years after Galaxy. I dont think you could qualify fairly Galaxy at any sort of mid level.Is high and thats . And we can be sure Zelda is gonna be more expensive than Galaxy 1 was, its often a bigger, meaner game. Most HD devs dream of 20mil and certainly rarely hope of getting 15 mil. For SD consoles, is insane.