Miyamoto: Breath of the Wild Needs to sell 2 million.

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hadoram said:

Naum said:
And other games need 5 million to even break even... how the hell do some companies spend their money.

full voice acting in multiple languages?

motion capturing?

Real World textures?

Live Action trailers?

Yeah.  AAA companies tend to overspend on superficial things because a lot of the time their games, when stripped down to their fundamentals, are typically very derivitive and add nothing to what's already on the market.  If you can't convince someone to buy the 6th main installment to a franchise in the last six years with gamplay, then pay an exorbiant amount to mask it and pretend that its something brand new.