What was Nintendo originally planning for Q1-Q2 on Wii U?

[Barozi]

supernihilist said:

Barozi said:

Not sure where the exact figure is coming from but this doesn't sound like trolling from his side:
http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/7/4597900/why-the-wonderful-101-doesnt-really-begin-until-the-second-playthrough

"We've never used this size of a team and this amount of time to build a game before,"

Definitely the most expensive game Platinum Games has created (before Bayonetta 2 at least). So should easily be $20m without advertising.

Sonic Lost World, Mario 3D World and Pikmin 3 aren't that conservative either.

are you telling me that theW101 costs about the same or more than Uncharted 3???

do you realize how stupid that sounds, and please all WiiU games are cheap as fuck, all look like HD Wii games, Mario 3DWorld is the only one that makes a good use of WiiUs GPU but thats it.

Can't blame them for being efficient with their budget. But that's the big exception and that's been proven dozens of times.

Homefront was $50m and had a 4 hours campaign with terrible graphics and a few online modes.

Hell Red Steel had a $15m budget on Wii (more than Gears of War 2)

So what counts is time and team size. Not so much the look of the game.

Also another Kamiya quote from above interview:
"There's X amount of content until the ending,' I will say that there's more volume to this game than Bayonetta."
Bayonetta sold 2m copies and apparently not profitable enough for SEGA to let them make a sequel.

Still surprised ?