| Tamron said: Mm,yeah, it'll take 15 years japanese studio experience over "i dont buy it". |
So I have to take some quickly made up estimate with obvious flaws for given? Do you think I don't have a brain in my head? I don't say that I think the game is profitable, I have serious doubts about that. But I also doubt the quick calculation of Tachikoma really defines a lower possible bound. Fact is, we just know too less for it. Tachikoma just let it look like this quick calculation is untouchable, because she wants to make a point. The same is true for the OP, his assumptions are also flawed, as he wants to make a point. Do I have to take the biased position of one as a universal truth only because of the job? I'm a software developer since more than 15 years, I can take a look from the outside myself. Tachikoma does not have more inside knowledge about HAL and Nintendo than I have. I don't say the cost estimate she made is too big, it might be actually too low. But accepting it as absolute lower bound would mean ignoring the obvious assumptions in this estimate, that might or might not be true.
