The Legend of Skyward Sword or how one game took down a whole company

[kitler53]

ninty_shareholder64 said:

RolStoppable said:

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is going to be released later this year, but can the game be worth all the work that was put into it?

No.

The Zelda series has become increasingly more dangerous for Nintendo. The manpower needed to complete Skyward Sword grew to 200 people in the later stages of development. Now think about how many games could be made by such a big amount of people. Nintendo doesn't have the luxury of third parties filling the gaps, so it's of high importance that they can provide a steady stream of games all by themselves. Otherwise something like the first half of 2011 happens. I am not just talking about the Wii here. The DS and 3DS have also been greatly affected. There hasn't been coming out much of anything lately.

Nowadays Zelda takes too much effort to make and while the games turn out to be great, it's still too big of a sacrifice considering what else could have been. No single game is worth five years of development combined with a ridiculous amount of people working on it. It's hurting Nintendo and more importantly, their customers. That would be us, the gamers.

Exactly! Wii Music 2, Wii Play3, Wii Fit 3, Mario Volleyball, Mario cooking, Wii Troll etc.

We, Thez gamers, Wii don't want AAA games, Wii want more shovelware NINTY!

And i thought 3rd party are filling this gap!

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