Vena on 13 December 2014
| ryuzaki57 said: How is 65 or 100K a great performance for a Nintendo game during Xmas period? |
ROI.
The game has little to no actual budget other than manhours in level design and a few new models and mechanics (the bosses, mostly). Everything else was built on the pre-existing toolkits of the 3DWorld engine and the Toad base design was already made without needing to tweak much of anything.
Titles don't need to be multi-million sellers to be successes, and Toad has a simple task: make some money, fill the line-up, give people something new to play and experience. (Its good experience for the developer staff too.) This is a AA-project, one that this industry has been lacking in recent years.
