KingCherry said:
duduspace1 said:
Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop/ adjusted for inflation in 2018, that is $78m, with the creativity it affords people, you can be assured Labo costs more than that.........For reference (I am not sure if you are a programmer) but Visual Studio (Microsoft's programming tool which is only useful to programmers) generally costs a lot more than Microsoft Office 2016, but I don't expect anybody who only uses Microsoft Word to understand why it should cost as high because any features it provides is of no use an utterly meaningless to them. Like I said before, the value a person attaches to anything is the utilitarian value it offers to them.
I am not aware we were talking of any other April asides from this past April. In terms of the discussion however it makes no difference whatsoever (provided you've not lost your train of thought of what l was responding to........i.e your saying that Labo being one of the highest sellers in April doesn't mean it sold well because (according to you) April had a low quantity of noteworthy titles. You are still making an assumption here because you do not have the actual sales figures. Having a low quantity of noteworthy titles is no validation that Labo didn't sell well.
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Why did Pokémon Red/Blue cost so much to develop? I thought it was created by a small(ish) team? Is the $50m including promotion/marketing, etc... ?
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That is not the cost of development, the amount I gave was an estimation of the total cost it took to bring Pokemon Red/Blue to market. The cost of developing it is not in the public domain and neither is the cost of developing GoW.
Furthermore, I actually never even claimed that the cost of developing the two games are the same. That was a strawman argument he came up with in trying to rationalize his position that Labo is overpriced.
I basically stopped responding because he seemed to like the sound of his own voice a little bit too much.
