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

[DonFerrari]

wombat123 said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

But you assume that AAA game throw a lot of money at the games because they know the game are bad and so they need to cover it in big cost adding voice acting and other elements. And that since Nintendo games are so good they don't need to expend much.

From a consumer perspective I would actually be ofended by nintendo putting 20M effort in a game and generating 1B in revenue. Because they either are making a subpar product (which usually isn't the case) or the shouldn't be selling it for 60 bucks but perhaps 20 that would be more close to the invested money and break even point for units. As a consumer I don't like a company having my money for a 80% profit margin. 10% is more than enough.

So the companies I support, they better invest in the product I want to buy or reinvest on the company to make it even better instead of taking all that profit to their pocket. Like a lot of people complain about Nintendo not being able to put enough games... if they use so little money and are so good at managing the projects and have so much money stoved, why they don't invest in more studios, more games being output, etc? I would say that is pure greedy and against my best interest as customer.

And before you question, most of my games I wait to buy bellow 20-30 bucks unless I see that the money I'm putting were to good use by the dev in making a good game or preparing for even better ones.