| pokoko said: So, basically, you're just making up numbers off the top of your head? And you're telling me that Zelda Wii U is going to have half the team that Skyward Sword had? Why? Also, what you called my definition isn't mine, it's that of Ingram Entertainment and other industry-leading distributers who send out prebook listings. If everyone is going to simply assign their own values to what "AAA" or "AA" mean, then this thread is a waste of time. |
Skyward Sword had a hellish development process and they were sapping developers from several other studios to get the game released on time. Yes, I expect Zelda Wii U to have fewer hands on it than Skyward Sword.
I'm not "making numbers up." Under 200 people were involved in the development of Skyward Sword. EAD 3 was assisted by SPD (which has about 70 employees) and Monolith Soft Kyoto (a team of about 30). Even assuming not everyone from SPD helped on Skyward Sword, you can see how dropping those two would whittle the size of the dev team for the next Zelda down to "around" 100 people. Hell, Link Between Worlds also received development support from other studios (including Monolith Soft again), yet the size of its dev team was under 100 people. Of course EAD 3 will probably have expanded to accomodate HD development, but I doubt that alone would account for the ~100 man difference.
If Zelda Wii U has had as choppy a development cycle as Skyward Sword had, sure, it could have had a bunch more developers piled onto it. But Iwata made it clear that Skyward Sword cost Nintendo far too many resources (time, developers, money, you name it) and that such a thing couldn't be allowed to happen again.
I certainly agree with the bolded, and I wasn't trying to discredit those terms by calling them "your" definition, I was just contrasting it with the one the OP seemed to be using, and the one I'm more familiar with. And now spem has offered his own definition. If we cannot all agree on such a basic thing, we're not even having the same discussion. I don't care what definition people want to use, as long as we're all using the same one. Anything other than that is just semantics.
