Why can't other 2nd party Nintendo devs ever compete with RARE?

[DerNebel]

spurgeonryan said:

DerNebel said:

You act as if this is done easily, I just counted and Rare released 11 games in 5 years on the N64, to even make 75% of that you would probably need a studio of what, maybe 500 people? Possibly more?

Really? Why? Technology and education has changed as well. Students should have the same tools when they get out of college as they did back then to get the job done. Just more advanced. I am not looking for a ton of out of this world games. It would not kill me and others if we had a few solid 8's.

You're trivializing game development quite a lot here, do you seriously think that Nintendo can just hire some dudes fresh out of college to make them "a few solid 8's"? Game development is a much more time intensive process nowadays than it was in the 90s, you can't just whip out a retail game in a year or something. Look at game series that already existed back then and how fast they were developed in the 90s compared to today.

For example Final Fantasy:

VII 1997

VIII 1999

IX 2000

and today we're still waiting for Final Fantasy XV which started production years ago. And you can find examples like this everywhere.