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

[routsounmanman]

Barozi said:

supernihilist said:

fatslob-:O said:

The jump to hd development incurs a significant jump in costs.

in the year 2001 Nintendo released games that were the top tiers of the industry, how the hell can be that cheaper than releasing all these budget conservative games Nintendo has released on WiiU

 

imagine what Luigis mansion and Wave race costed together then adjust inflation and what you get cant be cheaper than Pikmin3(Wii project), Zelda WW HD and SM3DWorld.

That doesn't make any sense.
Budgets were MUCH lower back in the days. Doesn't matter if it was top tier titles or not.

Simple character models, endless repeating low res textures, no online code, much smaller teams etc.

It's not simple as that. Back in the day, to make Mario's mustache move, you had to write days worth of code. Nowadays, it's just a library.

I agree that HD games cost more than Wii games, but not THAT much more, the initial period was much harder due to lacking tools, etc. Programming shaders is much simpler, faster and cheaper than 4 years ago.