Frontier Developments has been forced to defend itself following the announcement of Coaster Crazy Deluxe for the Wii U eShop.
There's been something of a negative reaction from certain sectors of the gaming public, with some individuals suggesting that Frontier has used money gained during the successful Kickstarter campaign for Elite: Dangerous to fund the Wii U title.
Elite: Dangerous is the latest in the long-running Elite series, and successfully reached its funding target in January. It raised £1,578,316 — well in excess of the original £1,250,000 goal.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Frontier's David Braben was quick to pour scorn over such rumours:
People think of a company just making one game at a time, but look at the number of different Kinectimals games and the Disneyland game we did. The fact we do lots of games in parallel shouldn't upset people. It's actually the opposite. It's what made the ability to do Elite possible, because we have such mature tools that are so flexible.
The teams for each of these games is different. We have had a wide range of output and we will continue to have. If anything it de-risks it, because it gives us extra resource we can apply to different things.
Braben confirmed that the developers behind Coaster Crazy Deluxe are entirely separate from the 45-strong team currently making Elite: Dangerous.
[source eurogamer.net]
Comments 8
All this hate....because they're developing a Wii U title too? If they were developing it for PSN/Live, would anyone have piped up? I doubt it. The arrogance and hatred of some fanboys never ceases to amaze me.
Do people really think developers work on 1 game at a time?
apart from the really small & indie developers in general development houses have a couple of teams, as well as people planning/working on future projects.
Wonder if people were more concerned that money paid via kickstarter was going somewhere it shouldn't have.
@darkgamer001 And if, as a Nintendo fan, you complain about it they also tell you to shut up.
WOW.
Elite: Dangerous should come to Wii U as well
@darkgamer001
How very true! Just because something is coming to Nintendo people have to get their knickers in a twist.
Oh heck yeah this is what I am talking about.
@darkgamer001 Definately. They just make up rumors just to make Nintendo and the team developing look bad.
@SKTTR 100% agree. It should come along with Coaster Crazy.
Elite looks good. I know they have to put bread on the table in the mean time though. I just wish bread on the table meant a new Lostwinds game.
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