Why do Nintendo games typically take 3-5 years to make? There is no logical reason other than the Devs that work for Nintendo are simply innefficient.

Nintendo games tend to be similar to past games are well so all they really have to do is up the resolution and create new maps. A game like Mario Kart should take half a year to make, not 3 years. Completely unacceptable!

Games like Gears of war, Uncharted, fable, assassins creed, halo, cal of duty, etc all take 1.5-2 years to make despite having state of the art engines, complex game worlds, online modes, complex dialogue etc

If Microsoft/Sony were in charge of Nintendo franchises I am conviced they could pump out games 3X times as fast as Nintendo. You would think Nintendo would come out with first party games quicker having very few/no third party games.

Spurgeonryan..

Perfectionists. Nintendo holds their devs to a higher standard than most publishers in the industry. As a result their games are almost always technically sound with very little bugs or glitches.

Cause they don't want to release a game that still hasn't been fixed 4 months after its release

Lemme guess: you also think FF VIII took five years to make or something

*looks at Nintendo's release schedule for the past couple years
*looks at how many have the same development teams
I'm gonna have to disagree

Nintendo games usually don't ship with a lot of bugs and glitches, and their quality is always a step above most.

The amount of polish in an average Nintendo game is far higher than that of most other developers - Nintendo, Blizzard and Valve are generally the 3 that I would consider to have this trait.

Nice joke thread, but saying that Call of Duty has a state of the art engine and complex dialogue kinda gives it away.

Smaller dev team size is the reason, silly pandas.