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[Meelow100]

Honestly? I don’t care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can’t do what a PS3 or 360 can do.”

“It’s about design and not so much about tech for me. Honestly, I’m more scared about what will come next than I am excited.

“Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I’m a little worried someone’s going to do that.

“Someone’s going to spend… well, there are already people spending $100 million on games, that’s not even insane anymore.”

“$200, 300 million games, I’m a little scared about that, there aren’t a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much. So my gut’s in a bit of a knot about that but whatever comes along I’ll just make games that work on that platform, I don’t think about hardware too much.

“I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can’t charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies, at $60, do the math!

“If you’re spending $200 million on a game and you’re making $60 on 20 million copies sold, oh wait, you’re losing money if you’re the best-selling game of all time basically, right? I don’t know how the business works anymore, that’s the problem.”

“It already takes three years to take a game, when all of a sudden creating assets at an even higher level of quality and animations that are even a higher level of quality, I don’t know how we’re going to do it. We’ll figure it out but right now I’m content where I am.”

[Nollog]

http://mynintendonew...aises-nintendo/

Here's his source, guys.

[Caius Casshern Sins]

This makes me feel we do not need a huge boost in power for next generation as it is too expensive for developers to make high quality games now.

[Lord Pickleton]

These "hardcore gamers" want more powerful consoles and better graphics, and once they get them they will complain because the price is too high. I hope these companies make good decisions.

[EternalDeadman]

His math is wrong...

[10k]

Next gen there will be an industry crash. Not as bad as 1983, but I think we will see many middle sized developers developers go bankrupt or get bought out and all that will survive is huge studios selling AAA games and indie devs. It's gonna be brutal.

[Blasty]

His math is wrong...

No it isn't.

[Nollog]

No it isn't.

It actually is,
60*20,000,000 = 1,200,000,000/100,000,000 = profit.

But game companies don't get the entire $60 from the game, so he's right, just not doing the math properly.

uh, minus, not divided by.
1,200,000,000-100,000,000 = profit.

Edited by Nollog, 26 April 2012 - 12:50 PM.

[Blasty]

It actually is,
60*20,000,000 = 1,200,000,000/100,000,000 = profit.

But game companies don't get the entire $60 from the game, so he's right, just not doing the math properly.

Oh sorry. It looks like my math was off as well.

[EternalDeadman]

It actually is,
60*20,000,000 = 1,200,000,000/100,000,000 = profit.

But game companies don't get the entire $60 from the game, so he's right, just not doing the math properly.

uh, minus, not divided by.
1,200,000,000-100,000,000 = profit.

Thanks!