Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

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Then here's the question - why invest so much in male Hroth? Why introduce them at all? Cut costs by reusing the Viera assets on the males instead of making two different races. And then you likely gain a better profit because as has been speculated often enough in this thread, male Hroths would likely not be as popular as male Viera.



They are not, nor do they need to be, nor was that even my point. My point is that pandering to people who want male Viera would be more beneficial and profitable than pandering to those who wanted male Hroths.

I follow you, I get it, but somehow people still aren't looking at this from the perspective of SE as expressed by Yoshida.

They wanted to do a beast race for the group of people requesting that.

They wanted to do Viera for the group of people requesting that.

They only had the resources to create two new character models.

If you look at this from that perspective there is no way to create male and female models of two races - that's four models, they've said they had money for two. Of course there would be some reused assets between a race but it certainly isn't that much, between Viera genders I could see ears, skin tones and some hairstyles? The costly part of starting a new race is remodeling all the existing gear and none of that would carry over between genders given that Viera females are very clearly female with female proportions.