Does anyone have a source of the budget of Nintendo games?

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KrspaceT said:

curl-6 said:

I'm actually wondering whether BOTW2 could challenge its own sequel for the "most expensive" Nintendo game. They may have been able to reuse the engine and some assets, but in typical Zelda team fashion it's taking forever to come out, and paying a big team for 4 and half years isn't cheap.

If they're trying to up the ante to try to outdo its predecessor that could also inflate costs.

It sounds like the game started work in 2018 and it is 2020. A two year cooking period with the fandom knowing about it for a year is not exactly unheard of or forever, especially given a certain COVID factor. 

It's no Majoras Mask turnaround, but its not exactly Duke Nukem Forever.

Wouldn't work have started in 2017 once BOTW wrapped? If it comes out holiday 2021, that'd be 4.5 years between the release of the two games. 

True, it's not Duke Nukem Forever, but with the engine and a lot of the assets done and reusable, I feel like that's a fairly long turnaround. Iterative AAA sequels have often followed 2 or 3 years behind their predecessors.