Nintendo doesn't publicly share their budget information, but the projected cost of both BOTW/TOTK are estimated between $100-$150 million, Scarlett and Violet have an estimated cost between $20-$25 million and Odyssey between $50-$100.
Compare these to the CoD's, God of Wars and Halos. Nintendo's games are roughly half the cost of the cheapest of those.
the original price for some slight overhauls isn't worth it. not at 60 70. Considering that it should just be an update like Xbox and Sony have done for the ps4 to ps5 games and they want to charge at all for that stuff is wild. To be on point I am referencing the BOTW and TOTK switch 2 upgrades.
There are free upgrades, $10 upgrades, and $20 upgrades. The free ones appear to be simple visual upgrades (presumably higher frame rates and resolutions). The $10 ones seem to be more involved visual upgrades. For example, BotW and TotK look like they've gotten texture upgrades, as well as HDR support, in addition to the performance improvements.
Sony did the same thing with some of its games.
The only $20 upgrades so far are Mario Party Jamboree and Kirby and the Forgotten Land, as far as I'm aware. Those both include additional content that likely would have been a $20 DLC on its own, without all the other improvements.
What game are you talking about? This is under a comment about the new dk game, which is definitely 3d. Even so, 2d or 3d doesn't tell you how much time, effort, or content went into it.
For an IP that's 44 years old and has made money hand over fist, multiple times, 10 bucks is fair (I'm exaggerating a bit, but not by much). Especially when Nintendo is stuck in the early 2000s in terms of hardware capabilities and innovation.
Some indy devs seem to do well enough creating brand new IPs that are interesting and sell their creations for a fraction of cost. Some are even free to play.
Oh wait, Nintendo gets to rip its fans off because the fans are terrible at math.
This take is straight awful. Who cares how old the IP is. And they are anything but stuck in the early 2000s. They are way more innovative than Sony and Microsoft who just release a new cheap computer every few years.
The Wii was released in 2006, the Wii U is just a continuation of that (so no innovation there) and handhelds have been around since... Gameboy. Back when they innovated that in the 1980s.
These days, other handhelds have far outpaced Nintendo in hardware capabilities and compatability with a variety of games, not just ones being published by a specific company.
The Wii U added a screen that streams directly to your console that you can play completely off of. That is definitely innovative. The Switch was the first commercial success of a handheld that is dockable to a TV seamlessly.
And no shit other handhelds have passed the switch. That's how technology works. It's been like 8 years since the Switch was released.
You just come across like a hater that can't afford it.
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u/Blue_Bird950 1d ago
DK costs $70