Bandai Namco Announces New Dev Studio For Commissioned Projects

Develop an FZero GX sequel !!

@Yoshif3 I second this.
Also a new Star Fox in the same vein as Adventures and Assault.

my prediction for what could be the next games Bandai Namco develop for Nintendo:
2D action game: Super Smash Bros 6
3D action game: Kid Icarus Uprising remake/remaster or a remake/remaster of a old Star Fox game(Star Fox 64 remaster/remake?

!!! ARMS MENTIONED !!!

Anyways, this is interesting. Bamco has pretty much always done good work with Nintendo, so them having a dedicated team for doing just that seems like a good idea to me.

@Arkay the more Star Fox the merrier.
I own Adventures but only played the intro.
Assault was great overall. I remember the on foot and tank sections were heavily criticized back then. Nintendo and Namco could have easily fixed this by adding a "Falco mode" after beating the game, where you play as Falco Lombardi, the only character who is always on the arwing. Otherwise only levels 1, 5, 8 and 10 were 100% arwing. My personal favorite level is Mission 3. Sargasso Space Zone; Hostilities Revisited though.
But honestly Zero is a better game. The morphing ability turned out to be more fun, since you can transition from Walker to arwing instantly, no need to get back to the ship.

@EaglyBird Intelligent System are the ones that does the Fire Emblem series not Bandai Namco.

@Yoshif3 my first thought.

It's pretty odd that we haven't gotten any new information on what Nintendo game Bandai Namco was working on remastering/remaking for them back when the job postings came out.

Wouldn't Studio 2 and Studio S be completely separate, logically speaking? Or at least separate teams under the same umbrella? I also came across a Google translation implying Studio 2 was for more broad outsourcing, while Studio S was exclusively a Nintendo collaborator, though who knows if that was a mistranslation

I wish they would make a port team. Still need soul calibur Bamco.

@EaglyBird
Namco has never worked with Nintendo on any Fire Emblem games. It's more likely Nintendo would collaborate with Koei Tecmo again to make a new FE since they helped develop Three Houses.

But hey Namco makes great games so I'm always down for more Nintendo collabs.

Never have I read the word "Studio" so many times in a single sentence.

calling it now: Pac-Man Vs. 2

Main things I want out of them are Kid Icarus Uprising and Star Fox Assault ports.

@JJtheTexan : I second this.👍

Hopefully Xenosaga has a chance of making a comeback now.

I always wanted a Nintendo fighting game in the style of how they made the Naruto games. Lots of characters, specials, attacks and styles. (Also the storymode part) they could call it something else than smashbros and make it a new genre. And that smashbros always stays in the same style.

I don't wanna say "Project X Zone 3 confirmed", but... wait, who am I kidding, I do want to say "Project X Zone 3 confirmed". Project X Zone 3 confirmed!

Well, their partnership has been pretty strong since Nintendo bought Monolith Soft. Sounds a bit daft saying the connection is stronger after one company bought the others subsidiary.
Considering Nintendo had no issue allowing MonoSoft to work on PxZ and both companies having thier Xeno characters appear in each other projects (PxZ2 and Xenoblade 2), I think its fair to say it's a very amicable relationship.

(One of these includes recruits for "3D action" games, which apparently incorporate a "side view" perspective.)

Urban Champion is getting a reboot. HELL YEAH, BABY!!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!!!!

@Arkay Well, Namco did help develop Star Fox: Assault. So it would not be a stretch to see them work on another one.

Personally, I would love a remake of that game, with more levels (especially the multiplayer-only levels of Titania, Zoness, and the Great Fox), but also original levels like Venom (where Fox has to infiltrate the ruins of Andross's base to retrieve the schematics of the computer virus weapon that they use to defeat the Aparoids), as well as the return of some levels from Star Fox 64 (such as Aquas, Solar, and Macbeth). Maybe even finally introduce Fox's homeworld of Papetoon, which had never been visited in a Star Fox game before (but mentioned in Star Fox Command and Starlink: Battle For Atlas).

Outside of more levels, they need to bring the rest of Team Star Wolf into multiplayer mode, and maybe even include Pigma and General Pepper. Plus, if they include characters like Bill Grey, Katt Monroe, Miyu, Fay, and possibly even Fara Phoenix (her first in-game debut), they should be included in multiplayer as well.

Furthermore, they need to tighten up the controls, as they are quite touchy on the GameCube version. One wrong move of the joystick, and you or your Landmaster can tumble off a ledge. Not even Star Fox Adventures had that problem, and people regard that game as the black sheep of the franchise.

But even if they don't do a remake, I would love to see a sequel, albeit one that ignores the canonicity of Command (ergo, Command is rendered non-canon). Fox and Krystal's relationship deepens, and the game ends with them getting married. Since Krystal is my favorite video game character of all time (narrowly beating out Samus Aran), I just wish they would do her justice.

They REALLY did her dirty in Command, and basically ignored her existence since then. She didn't appear in Star Fox Zero (even though it is a remake of Star Fox and Star Fox 64, but it would have been nice to see a cameo in a post-credits scene) or Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in the Orbital Gate Assault stage (a level which she was involved in in Star Fox: Assault), and was made an Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate when she should have been made playable, adding another staff fighter to the game (if you count Palutena as one).

That's fantastic to see both companies getting along well! I hope it means more cross-collaboration titles for Nintendo consoles, would love to see Tekken 8 as a launch title for the new console next year.

@Croctopus that was a cool game except for the weird controls…. It would be the perfect remake/remaster. If they do a late 2024 launch for the new system, I wouldn’t mind seeing this as a spring or summer title

Should had done this earlier then we wouldn't had garbage like the lazy Tales of Symphonia port. Also weird that Bandai Namco are doing this after Nintendo already kick them out of the Metroid Prime 4 project. My hope is that this leads to a Xenosaga HD trilogy and Project X Zone 3. Also a new Tales game would be nice, the Switch so far only had ports, we need an original Tales that define the Switch in its final years.

Namco's projects on Nintendo consoles have been fantastically made so far. Looking forward to more of them.

Given Xenoblade 2 and 3, a remake or remaster of Xenosaga has a 90-95% chance of coming. It is possibly crucial for the future of Xenoblade.

I really wish it would be a remaster, they already have the updated models for Kosmos and Telos from X2. I didn’t play the original but the original graphics always remind me of Bratz dolls with their disproportionate heads. 😂

Oef i hope they secretly working on a new smash title for the switch 2. I wouldnt mind if they take a new route with smash gameplay, storymode etc.

@The-Chosen-one ROLF. Smash Ultimate is the best selling fighting game of all time and sits right next with Mortal Kombat. Of course Nintendo is working on a new version, just as they will after that, and after that, till the series is no longer profitable.

I can’t wait to see what we get in the future! (Please be another smash game! Or something xenoblade related!)

I just found out yesterday I work about a mile from the Bandai Namco office in Irvine CA.
Part of me wanted to be like "LET ME IN!"

Good now give us a new Tales title that isn't a waterdown port of a PS4 game.

I'll say it again... Xenoblade Chronicles X remaster or a F-Zero GX sequel!

@LavaTwilight Zippo is more reliable than people seem to give him credit for, but he's still very unreliable. Genre of both listings doesn't match either

Not the action game, but I wouldn't be surprised if this studio also launched in part to do remakes/enhanced ports of the Xenosaga trilogy given how suggestive Future Redeemed was towards Xenosaga being canon to the Xenoblade trilogy. Bamco re-registered Xenosaga and KOS-MOS trademarks recently, but have given special leave for elements from them to show up in the Monolith Soft games for Nintendo.

Nintendo and Bamco may not be merging or anything, but they have a great working relationship, a lot better than Nintendo has with any of the other major Japanese video game studios (Squenix, Capcom, Konami, etc).

Nintendo usually do really well when they partner with third party devs. They somehow managed to make a Zelda musuo that I played for like 30 mins without a shower, which is nuts, for me.

@Arkay I second that. Personally, I would love a remake of Assault, with added levels in the story mode (including the multiplayer-only levels of the Great Fox, Titania, and Zoness; plus a few originals, like Macbeth, Solar, Aquas, and Venom).

Also tighten up the controls from the original, as they can be quite touchy. Furthermore, put the rest of the Star Wolf team (Pigma included) in multiplayer mode, and make the multiplayer mode online (where you can play with anyone, not just friends).

Otherwise, make a sequel to Assault that ignores the canonicity of Command. Even Estelle Ellis (the original voice of Krystal) said that Command isn't canon, although she probably said that as a joke.

I don't know about Adventures, though, as Rare made that game, and they're owned by Microsoft. Even though Nintendo and Microsoft have a good relationship right now, Rare is probably too busy working on updates to Sea of Thieves and developing their upcoming game Everwild to make time for a remake to Star Fox Adventures.

But if they did, they HAVE to give Krystal a much larger role in the game. Maybe have Fox rescue her about halfway through, as the originally intended, and he goes off to find the Spellstones while she goes off to find the Krazoa Spirits. And they need to make General Scales a proper boss.

“Side-view action game” gotta be that fabled Star Fox Grand Prix. 🤔

Put that team to work on more Pokémon titles (loved Pokken and New Snap). Show Game Freak how it's done.

Tales of the Abyss HD (With more translations like the French, the German, etc...), please?