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.
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u/Blue_Bird950 1d ago
DK costs $70