Japan: Splatoon 2 outsells Splatoon's total, Switch hardware sales outpacing PS2

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burninmylight said:

wombat123 said:

If the AC team hasn't already been split to give Animal Crossing and Splatoon their own dedicated teams then it should be because both franchises are too big and too important to be a development group's secondary focus.

So long as Nintendo doesn't look at Activision, Ubisoft and EA and decide these franchises need a new game every single year and throttle the devs into only working on those games and no other projects.

The difference being that even when a Nintendo team only works on one project, it still takes 2-3 years typically to complete the game, because they value quality and don't create enormous/expensive development teams due to their money saving business style. You don't see 250-300 people development teams at Nintendo, except for occassionally Zelda (which still take about 5-6 years to come out, at least the major ones).