Nintendo Wants To Keep 'Traditional Approach' To Development as Costs Skyrocket (theverge.com)
(Monday July 07, 2025 @05:30PM (msmash)
from the for-what-it-is-worth dept.)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/07/07/1937247/nintendo-wants-to-keep-traditional-approach-to-development-as-costs-skyrocket
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/699429/nintendo-switch-2-game-development-costs
Nintendo plans to maintain its " [1]traditional approach " to game development while managing rising costs during the Switch 2 transition, company president Shuntaro Furukawa said during a recent shareholders meeting.
"Recent game software development has become larger in scale and longer in duration, resulting in higher development costs," he said, adding that "rising development costs are increasing that risk" in what has always been "a high-risk business."
Nintendo's development teams are "currently devising various ways to maintain our traditional approach to creating games amidst the increasing scale and length of development," Furukawa said. The company believes, he said, "it is important to make the necessary investments for more efficient development."
The early Switch 2 lineup reflects increased ambition, with Mario Kart World introducing open-world structure to the racing series and Donkey Kong Bananza adding destructive elements to 3D platforming. Mario Kart World sells for $79.99, $10 more than most Nintendo games, while the Switch 2 costs $449.99, a $100 increase over the Switch OLED.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/699429/nintendo-switch-2-game-development-costs
"Recent game software development has become larger in scale and longer in duration, resulting in higher development costs," he said, adding that "rising development costs are increasing that risk" in what has always been "a high-risk business."
Nintendo's development teams are "currently devising various ways to maintain our traditional approach to creating games amidst the increasing scale and length of development," Furukawa said. The company believes, he said, "it is important to make the necessary investments for more efficient development."
The early Switch 2 lineup reflects increased ambition, with Mario Kart World introducing open-world structure to the racing series and Donkey Kong Bananza adding destructive elements to 3D platforming. Mario Kart World sells for $79.99, $10 more than most Nintendo games, while the Switch 2 costs $449.99, a $100 increase over the Switch OLED.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/699429/nintendo-switch-2-game-development-costs
Thank fuck for Asia (Score:2)
by locater16 ( 2326718 )
The west has gone and fucked itself right up the jacksie by ensuring the salesmen are in charge rather than people actually making the products. Salesmen want the biggest numbers, and since money is the only language they speak they assume that by spending more they can earn more. Thus every western game studio is ordered to spend more more more until 9/10 studios fail and everyone is fired, but by god that 1/10 are going to make so much money maybe so gamble today!
Meanwhile Japan and now China of all pl
You get to pick how much you invest in the game (Score:2)
Unless some external force want you to use more money because it increase some value, even if you don't even have how to use the extra budget in a realistic way.