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curl-6 said:

haxxiy said:

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.

This is a missconception. Budgets scale with workforce and development time. The graphics themselves are not that relevant

There are over 1100 names on credits of TOTK and the game took around 5 years to develop. I'm pretty sure it was more expensive to develop than Baldurs Gate (450 employees, 6 years development), and Baldurs Gate have much higher quality assets and animations than any Nintendo game