The Switch is not another Wii U!

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Wyrdness said:

bdbdbd said:

Of course it's making more money than it takes to maintain, that's why they maintain it. I don't think Pokemon Go is making money for Nintendo a hundred million per quarter, especially when the initial excitement is over. 

SMR is a simple runner game, and it did cost less than NSMB, yes. But I think you underestimate the cost of the game and overestimate the cost of NSMB, when the latter NSMB games have just been rehashes, Nintendo obviously made them just out of leftovers from other earlier games. SMR cost less than NSMB, but I doubt it cost that much less.

Even if it doesn't generate 1b in revenue every quarter it's still generating constant profit something shipped software doesn't do, by the time they pull the plug on PGO it would have generated more money than the majority of games they've ever released this isn't even up for debate.

SMR is far more simple than NSMB, a small team of a few people could even do development for it unlike NSMB which required an entire team as the designs in the latter are leagues above what SMR has even the rehashes, the latter won't even come close to NSMB in costs to make.

It is going to make more money than just about anything, but they could make, say, two or three games and maybe make even more money.

I don't think the difference is that big. In any case, NSMB makes a lot more money.