Nintendo made
-Wind Waker
-Twilight Princess
-Four Swords
-Minish Cap and
-Phantom Hourglass
in the same time they need to make nothing but Breath of the Wild 2 (presumably 6 years), a game that probably borrows even more from BotW than MM did from OoT.
Nintendo also made seven Metroid games and three Metroid Primes in the same time they now need to make Dread and one new Metroid Prime, but that's another story.
Yeah videogame development takes forever now, what's new
>nintendo made several shit zelda games
>nintendo will continue to make more shit zelda games, but with longer dev times
Whatever
Too bad that excuse doesn't work for Nintendo since they literally still use 10 year old hardware and don't give a shit about anything.
wtf i no longer enjoy zelda games because of this post
They care about making their games fun
>i no longer enjoy zelda games
Based
they were more fun on gamecube and we got more of them
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>WW isn't like a 25 hour game
>Twilight Princess isn't the same game with a mature skin and more dungeons
>Four Sword isn't a top town simpler SNES styled game
>Minish Cap wasn't made by an entirely different fucking company
Nintendo made Breath of the Wild in the same time it took them to make several smaller games, yeah what's your point? In a market dominated by "Cinematic big budget open world games" smaller simpler titles that were released like 20 years ago like the ones you mentioned won't sell well.
I'm not sure if you've noticed but we aren't in the GameCube's era anymore. Nintendo's games aren't 1.3 gigs in size now. This is a retarded argument. You aren't even taking into account that some of the developers are not shared across the board. Nintendo EAD generally makes Zelda, and Metroid gets passed around a lot.
I'm not saying anything about the quality of games then and now, but pretending like we can churn out games at the rate we did 20 years ago with the increasing scope and criticality of players and reviewers makes you sound like a mondo retard.
I thought we were talking about Zelda? Pokémon games are made every year.
Anyway you’re forgetting about Links Awakening and Hyrule Warriors.
Minish Cap and Phantom Hourglass had separate development teams from the console games. Minish Cap wasn't even Nintendo. You might as well count Age of Calamity.
Also, this time they wasted time and resources with Skyward Sword HD. Like the director of Phantom Hourglass handled that rather than some low budget original project like Phantom Hourglass.
Not only will they won't sell well, they weren't doing well previously. Nintendo was doing 2 Zelda games a console until the Wii, and skyward sword sold pretty bad despite being on the on their best selling console. They needed to change stuff up, they couldn't keep making the same smaller scope game.
You are for some retarded reason ignoring Link's Awakening, and another 2D Zelda should be done soon too. So about 3 games vs 5, not a huge gap considering how much more difficult game development is now.
Nintendo has made more games for the switch than they made for the gamecube total. They just aren't as focused on Mario and Zelda now, and make other stuff like Splatoon, Ring Fit, ARMS, Clubhouse games, Tetris 99, etc.
>Open world games with a ton of mechanics take longer to make than a specific catered experience with one or two solutions to each puzzle.
Yeah and?
And before you say
>but Links Awakening was just a remake
Doesn’t matter. That was development time that could have been used for a new original 2D Zelda but they used it to make a remake instead. It counts as a new game.
>WindWaker
>unfinished, crushingly disappointing game
>TP
>furry shit, zombie version of what was promised before Nintendo took a shit and called it WindWaker
>All those shitty 2d entries
It was developed by Grezzo not Nintendo
We hear it all the time from every developer and publisher: Games these days are much harder to make than games of yesteryear
Wind Waker would take a week to make in todays world.
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>It was developed by Grezzo not Nintendo
Like 90% of Nintendo games aren't made by Nintendo. Completely retarded standard. Are Fire Emblem, Metroid Dread, Pokemon Snap, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Party and Paper Mario not Nintendo games?
Maybe you should look up who makes what and who publishes what. Of course they're Nintendo games, but saying something like "Links Awakening took away time from something else" When they're not even being worked on in the same building isn't an argument/
Nintendo has for years focused on expanding second parties and making more partnerships. They could put all the Monolith employees in Nintendo EPD but that wouldn't change anything.
Nintendo still games a lot of their own games, through either 2nd parties or EAD/EPD. Links Awakening counts as it's own game, but it didn't steal any dev time away.
Nintendo decided to make it, and contracted another company they weren't gonna give a big IP like Zelda to just anyone, especially if it was a new game in the series for home console.
That's why it shouldn't be counted. Nintendo said "make this" and checked in to make sure it was up to par.