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Moren on 12 April 2011
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kitler53 said:
morenoingrato said:
kitler53 said:
miz1q2w3e said:
LordTheNightKnight said:

You think the 3DS cost nothing to research and make? I still think it's not the right direction, but I don't think it was cheap.

I doubt their game development studios had anything to do with R&D/making the 3DS, maybe one or two of them were involved in 3DS firmware/OS/built in games - Otherwise, what is it about 3DS that leads you to believe that the device making itself hogged enough resources to nearly halt game develpement on all their other platforms?

Besides, as I already wrote, allegedly focusing on the 3DS is no excuse for the biggest publisher on earth to be in this type of situation - Last quarter was no better: http://features.metacritic.com/features/2011/25-best-wii-games/  sad


this -- and if all the nintendo fans on this site are correct - wii/ds/3DS games are significantly less costly (i.e. take less people) to make then ps3/psp/NGP therefore nintendo ought to be able to exceed the number of first party games that sony can make.

so why is sony destroying nintendo on the number of games created over the last couple of years?


I admit, the Wii line-up is bad... but your statement is even more flawed.

Sony games cost more than Nintendo's? Maybe. Less work? No.

And Nintendo and Sony's first party has actually been pretty much on par this gen, only Sony has a better second party and much better third party, and Nintendo just doesn't know how to distribute games. They just throw it all to the end of the year.

in software cost and work are directly tied.  raw material costs don't really exist.  there is some overhead for offices but development costs are in the ballpark of 80% tied to employment.

... but hey, if you want to claim that development costs on the Wii are the same as the ps3 i'd love to quote you that.  you'd be wrong but i'll have a good time with that quote. xD

Did I ever say Nitendo games cost less than Sony's? No.

I said they take the same ammount of work or people, but less resources. You should learn to read well before responding.