So many American gamers will hear about how profitable Nintendo is and be like “This means Nintendo should make more big budget games” Lol, no wonder the Western gaming industry is in its current state lol - ThreadSky

jiikae.com • 3 days ago

So many American gamers will hear about how profitable Nintendo is and be like “This means Nintendo should make more big budget games”

Lol, no wonder the Western gaming industry is in its current state lol

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tle.bsky.social•3 days ago

a while ago there was a reddit thread under an article about how nintendo had like no debt and half the comments were like "wow they sure are underutilizing their capital, what a bunch of morons!"

elvenmonk.bsky.social•3 days ago

At one point Nintendo could run at an operating loss of 100 mil a year and still be fully operational with zero changes in the budget for like 10 years.

mcustardo.bsky.social•3 days ago

And they were barely losing money during the Wii U era and even turned a small profit during a few of those years

gyrasolune.bsky.social•3 days ago

americans have spent the better part of a century being convinced that Debt Is Good, Actually, The More Debt You're In The More Important You Are so they're boggled by a company thats like hm i'd rather not owe millions of dollars that sounds handy

jiikae.com•3 days ago

Nintendo is profitable BECAUSE they are careful about their budgets

This brute force, infinite growth, “just throw money at the issue” thing that we do in America is part of the problem we have now lol

0megabyte.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Yeah, nobody needs to craft the individual pores on Mario’s face. That money should instead just… not be spent in the first place, lmao

urinefetus.bsky.social•3 days ago

this approach makes sense even from a consumer's standpoint. they can pump out like 10 games in the time and money it takes Sony to make 1

cyrusvgz.bsky.social•3 days ago

New Pokemon trailers dropped and they're still screaming at them about BUDGET even with all the shit going on.

They're not learning anything lol.

pamjamelia.bsky.social•3 days ago

Part of me wishes they could at least figure out something with anti-aliasing but ehhhhhhh
So long as it runs a bit better than Scarlet and Violet it doesn't matter that much XD

pamjamelia.bsky.social•3 days ago

"It" as in Legends ZA, whoops

jiikae.com•3 days ago

Exactly.

I have issues with new era Pokemon. Haven’t bought one since Sun/Moon. But “budget” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind

If they were actually had more compelling ideas I wouldn’t give a damn about how “cheap” they looked

cyrusvgz.bsky.social•3 days ago

Give the new Z-A trailer a look if you haven't. It has real time combat.

theryusui.bsky.social•1 day ago

honestly, probably the best news out of the trailer is that they DIDN'T announce Gen X for this year

considering how the consensus seems to be that Gen IX needed more time in the oven, i'd like to imagine Nintendo took public opinion to heart here

curtis3sg.bsky.social•3 days ago

There's this myth in America about perpetual growing profits. Perpetual growth is a description of cancer.

jiikae.com•3 days ago

SPOT ON

eyesinside.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's amazing how profitable a company can be when they don't engage in a graphical arms race that the consumers have loudly declared they don't care about.

Oh and when they don't lay off entire staffs after they finish wildly successful games.

josephl64.bsky.social•3 days ago

Or...we could have them fund and outsource more mid-budget titles on the scale of a Princess Peach or Famicom Detective Club.

sermonroe.bsky.social•3 days ago

They really are a very forward thinking company. They straight up said there's no reason to go bigger all the way back with the Wii. Paraphrasing but essentially when you do that, people's graphical demands for games are gonna reach a level you can't keep up with. And we're seeing it now

tudsworthington.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's funny because I'm pretty sure that even the most conservative estimates on the costs related to their biggest games (BotW and TotK) still put them at, like, undercutting even a more reasonably budgeted AAA title.

mushplush.bsky.social•3 days ago

Did you know that if Sony and Microsoft didn't charge for online play on PlayStation and Xbox they wouldn't turn a profit? So basically every time the subscription service gets a price hike it's because they're losing too much money in game development or other areas.

starbot.newgrounds.com•1 day ago

Doesn't Nintendo charge for there Online too?

s83bai.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Yes, but Nintendo doesn’t rely on NSO subscriptions to be profitable. They make money from each console sale and almost every game, unlike Sony and Microsoft.

doctor42.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's the American way of "bigger is better" and that is why they want more polygons, more frames, bigger worlds, but mot much more substance

jiikae.com•3 days ago

YUP

banjomcfluff.bsky.social•3 days ago

One of the best and arguably only good things Nintendo does is producing games. They're given enough time and money for each project, not everything needs to be a 500 million dollar graphics fest, and they know that. The one thing I wish other companies would take away from them

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