No. Because it sounds like he's only ever been an employee.
That said, the person he's replying to is also completely wrong. It's a very high risk industry. But it's also a huge spread and can easily have wide margins. So much dev cost gets flushed away with incompetent management and budgeting, and trying to tie that to margins and risk is silly.
It depends, as it always does, with the studio, its circumstances, and its funding methods. But to apply that to Nintendo here is nonsense. Nintendo isn't upping the price to the mean due to inflation. It's leading the mean simply because it can.
I don't really think anything Nintendo puts out is going to be a High Risk. They're able to coast on their name recognition at this point.
Look at Pokemon (not MADE by Nintendo, but made FOR Nintendo), they ship absolute trash and people freak out and buy all 7 editions to get every pokemon
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u/UpperApe 1d ago
EA/Blackbird, Sony, Riot, ran my own personal studio, and retired early. Does that count?