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Soundwave on 16 May 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

Who knows, but I think we are reaching the point where budgets and dev times supercede the hardware. 

Not even developers like Capcom can afford to make $300+ million the norm for every new game, so how are they eventually even supposed to top like GTAVI even 7-8 years down the line. It doesn't work. 

Nintendo I think is going to have an interesting future because I think the movie business is going to go extremely well for them and things like Mario CG movie sequels and the Zelda movie and probably eventually a Smash Bros. CG movie will put some pressure on them to keep having better graphics that more stay in line with the movie versions of their characters. 

Other regular 3rd parties though ... I think many of them (you can put Square-Enix in this category) are fucked. They can't afford those kinds of budgets with the limited audiences they have. 

That future sounds like a disaster because if Nintendo has to push those kind graphics that Means way more time for games to come out with a much bigger budget and ninetndo relies mainly in its first party.  They are just falling into the problem everyone else is dealing with .

Nintendo has a bigger future ahead of it than just games. Like Marvel, they are going to become a monster movie/media brand in the coming years I would predict, bigger than just gaming. More international theme park attractions, more hit movies, and then games also. They're going to become a company unlike the others in the game business. 

The Super Mario Bros. movie was the 2nd biggest movie of last year after Barbie, they are going to make a fortune with future films but more than that it's going to expand the reach of their IP dramatically in a similar way Marvel movies took characters that were mildly popular like Captain American and Iron Man and turned them into super well known iconic characters that everyone knows, I think you will see even B-tier Nintendo characters become very popular.