Famitsu Sales: Week 10, 2024 (Mar 04 - Mar 10)

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haxxiy said:

Kneetos said:

Zelda isn't built to be a stupidly hight multi million seller franchise, they just happen to put out good numbers, and you can argue most, if not all of Nintendo's games are built to be more budget friendly

Both BOTW and TOTK took 5+ years of development and it's unlikely Aonuma's team has less than 200+ employees. A lot was being invested here no matter how you slice it. These were probably the most expensive Nintendo games by far.

They're probably the two most expensive games Nintendo has ever made, but I seriously doubt BOTW/TOTK cost nearly as much as Final Fantasy 16/Rebirth, simply due to not having to create highly detailed (semi-)realistic assets. Budget tends to scale with graphical complexity and FF are more than a generation ahead of Zelda in that department.