
Recently, information surfaced indicating that Pokemon Legends: Z-A was developed with a budget of only about $13 million. This is significantly less than the large budgets – often in the hundreds of millions – typically seen for major, high-profile games. Former Nintendo employees Krysta Yang and Kit Ellis discussed this leak on their YouTube channel, suggesting that Pokemon Legends: Z-A only needed to sell 200,000 copies to cover its costs, compared to the millions required for most AAA titles. However, a smaller budget isn’t necessarily a negative, particularly for a Pokemon game.