I think it’s the identical cause that Nintendo doesn’t push $100+ million budgets for his or her flagship video games though they may – as a result of what they’re at present doing works for them. The Pokemon franchise is already the business chief within the subject. Often, the massive query the folks with the cash ask is “If we put more cash into this undertaking, how will it translate to much more cash down the highway?”

Companies run on percentages. In the event that they put in more cash to a undertaking, they should get proportionately more cash out of that undertaking. Utilizing some serviette math, roughly 100 devs working at GameFreak for 4 years on a mainline Pokemon recreation interprets to roughly $48 million in funds. Let’s say they doubled that funds. Would the ensuing recreation generate double the gross sales or earnings? Wouldn’t it deliver extra customers into different Pokemon franchise parts like merch? They want a cause to justify elevated expenditure, “as a result of we need to” doesn’t rely.

It’s straightforward to need issues since you would personally get pleasure from them extra however, for the sake of evaluating feasibility, it helps to place your self within the place of an government who has to justify the choice financially. If you happen to trusted these earnings to fund different recreation initiatives and preserve the corporate wholesome, spending extra with out ample return on funding doesn’t make a complete lot of sense.

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