Uncovering the budget of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom

In this investigative video, we're going to try to reverse engineer the budget of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. From the game engine, planning and staffing to the testing, quality assurance, localisation and marketing. We'll be including a look at Nintendo's expectations for sales and the long-term vision Shinya Takahashi set out ten years ago to explain how they budget big projects and show some surprising games that benefitted from the development of these titles. We'll also identify why Shigeru Miyamoto was quoted out of context and review the non-Zelda game that may have been hugely important as a milestone for Tears of the Kingdom's development. 00:00 Aims 01:09 They "know nothing about the business" of games 03:25 Nintendo's approach to budgets 05:15 How Miyamoto was misquoted 07:30 The Takahashi plan 11:42 Staffing 15:42 Year by Year 31:19 The biggest cost of all?