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

[wombat123]

DonFerrari said:

wombat123 said:

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.

Is this the syndrome that only Nintendo knows how to make games and that people that like those AAA games like shallow games?

It's not that Nintendo is immune from derivitive games; look at the NSMB series (or even Pokemon) for example.  The difference to me is that Nintendo doesn't have to spend a fortune to try and get people to buy some of their IPs that tend to recycle an established formula without adding much else or be released fairly frequently.