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shikamaru317 said:
RavenXtra said:

Seriously? That series gets so much marketing cross-promotion, tie-ins, and TV advertising I wouldn't be surprised if the budget is higher than the rest of Nintendo's games combined

It gets a big marketing budget for sure, but development budgets are likely quite low. 

Development is not more expensive because the game has better visuals, I'm pretty sure that those paychecks at gamefreak are bigger than the development team of many "AAA" games.