Former EA producer - a $100 million game needs to sell about 6 million just to break even

[JackHandy]

TheRealSamusAran said:

JackHandy said:

I don't remember many kids back in 1990 playing SMB 3 for the first time and complaining that it wasn't AAA. And you can say the same about all games up to a point. A great game is a great game, and people will buy them regardless. The industry would be fine if they scaled back. After all, look at Fortnite. Not that I'd advocate for crap like that, but it's not really pushing the hardware, you know? So if the industry collectively decided to go in another direction, people would follow.

Dawg, no one is complaining that Super Mario Wonder didn't cost as much as BOTW to make, but you can't make BOTW with whatever the SMW budget was. You completely missed the point about different experiences.

I'm just saying that I believe gamers would keep buying in no matter what. There are too many examples of cheap games out there that are killing it right now for me to think any different. The developers just haven't wanted to go that route, yet.