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Dunban67 on 01 July 2016
RolStoppable said:
Obviously a mistake.

yes i m sure Zelda BOW needs to sell alot more than 2 million to break even-   Why don t any of these gaming sites ever independantly verify their info?  They pick up a story from 1 site (that may or may not have correct information and dozens of sites run with the info-  when people see said info over and over again they just assume it is true



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Dunban67 on 01 July 2016






glimmer_of_hope said:

So in other words its costs Nintendo $140 million to develop and market each game? Ya ok. Just for reference it cost $137 million to develop GTAV.

no one said that-  do you know what the word average means?   


Keybladewielder on 01 July 2016

What is even the definition of "average Nintendo game"? 



jason1637 on 01 July 2016
glimmer_of_hope said:

So in other words its costs Nintendo $140 million to develop and market each game? Ya ok. Just for reference it cost $137 million to develop GTAV.

Nintendo makes around 20-27 $$ per Wii U retail game its its lower per 3ds retail game. So its safe to assume average Wii U games cost 40-60ml 



Dunban67 on 01 July 2016
Mar1217 said:
Kerotan said:

Judging by the delays and how long it took to release star Fox Zero I'd say we are as near as ever. 

Yeah, cause Animal Crossing : Amiibo Festival, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash and Mario Party 10 certainly took them a lot of time to be released as well bcause they were in HD ... -_-

+ Star Fox Zero was delayed 1 time. Let's not freak out about it plz.

considering the number and length of game droughts throughout the Wii U s lifetime,  it would seem they struggled making HD games to date-   If it took them a long time to make Amiibo festival and Mario Tennis (do we know how long the dev  time was for those) , then they would need to stop developig in hd



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glimmer_of_hope on 01 July 2016
Dunban67 said:






glimmer_of_hope said:

So in other words its costs Nintendo $140 million to develop and market each game? Ya ok. Just for reference it cost $137 million to develop GTAV.

no one said that-  do you know what the word average means?   

Um ok....So in other words  ON AVERAGE it costs Nintendo $140 million to develop and market each game? Ya ok. Just for reference it cost $137 million to develop GTAV. Is that better? Pleae go way with your sarcasm, theres no need to start an agrument.



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Dunban67 on 01 July 2016
glimmer_of_hope said:
Dunban67 said:

Um ok....So in other words  ON AVERAGE it costs Nintendo $140 million to develop and market each game? Ya ok. Just for reference it cost $137 million to develop GTAV. Is that better? Pleae go way with your sarcasm, theres no need to start an agrument.

no one said it cost $140 million to develop a Nintendo game-   I m sure it does not -   2 million times $20-$30 does not equal $140 million   closer to $40 to $60 million



glimmer_of_hope on 01 July 2016
Dunban67 said:
glimmer_of_hope said:

Um ok....So in other words  ON AVERAGE it costs Nintendo $140 million to develop and market each game? Ya ok. Just for reference it cost $137 million to develop GTAV. Is that better? Pleae go way with your sarcasm, theres no need to start an agrument.

no one said it cost $140 million to develop a Nintendo game-   I m sure it does not -   2 million times $20-$30 does not equal $140 million   closer to $40 to $60 million

Since when do Nintendo games cost $20-30? There are many new games at $60 $70 $80



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Culipechi on 01 July 2016

Nah



Teeqoz on 01 July 2016
DivinePaladin said:
outlawauron said:

Splatoon's budget was huge though. Nintendo has spent so much money on marketing for the game alone, it's probably 2x the amount paid out during development.

Even with a marketing budget that tripled the overall budget Splatoon likely didn't need 2 million. Or perhaps more fittingly put, Nintendo knew before it shelled out for marketing that the game was going to perform well, so it doubled down. Not that that detracts from your point or anything of course. 

 

Splatoon had such a paltry development budget even after all the extra maps and such are accounted for, people are starting to forget that. Remember this was a game that was claimed to sell as well as W101 because of how little content it had. 

Remember that that was one user on VGC. It baffles me how people have managed to revise history to make it out like everyone expected it to sell TW101 numbers just because Gergroy said it once.