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@Ashunera84 I don’t know about Polygon but not a fan of IGN. There are too many nerds there that try and act cool rather than just being plain old nerdy like the NintendoLife staff.

@Vortexeo No. Bayonetta 3 is a Nintendo game so won’t be shown.

@KindofaBigDeal Mario Kart 8 has a long ways to go to reach GtAV. I think it’s sold like 170 million

What did the studio work on after Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, though?

@Silly_G The game has continued development since its launch 6 years ago. It will probably never be complete.

@FoxMcCloud Thanks. I've heard this 65daysofstatic album before and many of their other albums. But I'd like to hear it as a soundtrack to this game, even though they have much better albums.

Want to play it just for the soundtrack. Love me some 55daysofstatic

@Ragdoll72 It's been just over 2.5 years since Luigi's Mansion 3 so yeah, they didn't have a lot of time to work on this title. Probably Nintendo will have them work on it post-release.

I was starting to regret backing this but looks to be turning out pretty better than the other games I’ve backed.

@the_beaver It has been a successful formula. I can understand why you would want it to have everything from the start, but that makes it hard to keep the game active. A periodic impulse of new content/modes is more likely to keep intrigue

Also, there is an overemphasis on content these days which makes a lot of games feel bloated. I’d much prefer the game be tightly engineered.

@UltimateOtaku91 BOTW was an exploration game. Calling it sparse is kind of a silly criticism and there are always new things to discover. If you were just trying to get from point a to point b, you weren't getting the most out of the game. Sonic is not an exploration game. So that makes the game looks disjointed to me right now.

@kingbk I don’t know why Nintendo bothers with Jaleco games. They seem to be mostly bad. Especially when there are still a lot of good SNES and NES games not available yet

@Maulbert I've only played Fire Emblem Warriors so can't say anything about the rest but FEW was not just button mashing. There was a decent amount of strategy involved.

@NinjaNicky Wrestling games are already RPGs, though... At least the season modes are. I think the main thing this brings to the table is the turn-based combat

@Ryu_Niiyama I am also a little confused by people getting up in arms about contractors being treated differently from employees when contractors are not employees and by definition a different class of worker.

Companies need to be very careful not to treat contractors as employees or they could get sued by the contractor for misclassifying them, which could have serious consequences.

@AndyC_MK111 I think they did not phone it in, they just didn’t allocate enough resources to develop it. It probably had less than a two year development period. I think it kinda sucks cause Sports started out as an incredibly innovative series and this one is extremely uninnovative.

I imagine they also weren’t sure about the series since it sold so poorly on the WiiU. So they decided to test whether to continue with it by putting out a budget title.

@UltimateOtaku91 It’s still over 2 billion dollars. I’d say that’s pretty impressive.

@Abeedo It's just too expensive to develop AAA games these days. It's basically the same conundrum that Hollywood is in. You cannot be innovative because the risk of failure is too great. For risky projects, you want to spend much less money.

I think most innovative titles by big publishers in the past 10 years or so have been published by Nintendo. And even most of those were not "truly original".. Aside from maybe Labo and Ring Fit Adventure.
But Nintendo allocates much smaller development budgets and many of their executives are creative types.

@LP09 It’s Nintendo’s fault, though. They didn’t know what they wanted to do with the system. If it had launched with Splatoon and Mario Maker and they continued to make compelling software, it probably would have done far better

So does this mean we’ll start to see more video game adaptations?

@SpiritOfTheHero I doubt he handpicked Bowser but he may have recommended him. I doubt there would be any consequences but if he did recommend him that would make Reggie look bad.

Nintendo is a Japanese company and Japanese companies are much more sensitive to public perception so I imagine the situation will get resolved.

@Dr_Lugae I don’t think there’s an X-factor cause Square does release putrid games from time to time. Also the original Rodea was good so Naka still can develop good games.

Square does not develop platformers though and shouldn’t have taken on the project. Also they released the game in a bad state. It’d have been better to cancel it. That’s what Nintendo would have done

@Hero8-Bit I think if you like JRPGs or indies it is is still great from a 3rd party standpoint. But Nintendo hasn’t got much for 3rd party beyond that. It’s also 5 years old so probably just one or two more years until the next iteration

@Hero8-Bit It wouldn’t sell if it was treated as a tablet. That’s not how it was designed and not the problem it’s aiming to solve. There are much better tablets out there. And maybe you feel that way but the system is still selling well and will be at least the third best selling game device of all time.

@Ralizah Yeah. I’m sure it was but it wouldn’t have been in production til after Animal Crossing was finished. But the core members probably had a couple years to do R&D for it. We still don’t know how much new this entry will offer either. I’m pretty sure it’ll offer much more than 2 and 2 offered quite a bit more than 1 counting its DLC.

@Ralizah The turnaround time from Splatoon 2 is 5 years but the turnaround time from Animal Crossing New Horizons (same division) is about 2.5 years which is on par with that from 1 to 2, with less momentum probably.

If Nintendo doesn’t want to localize it, why don’t they contract Marvelous to do so? Seems like a waste.

I think it will launch with the successor. Nintendo will not make the mistake they made with the WiiU and the Gamecube, which was not launch with compelling software. Zelda is their most compelling IP and they'll have worked on this game for probably 6.5 years by the point it releases. I think they will not pull a Skyward Sword and release the next Zelda game a year before the new system comes out.

@BTB20 I believe NST handled the 3D World port not EPD. Though I think Bowser's Fury was a joint effort between EPD and 1UP.

@BakaKnight The year's already packed and they haven't even finished announcing the games in the latter half of the year.

@Dezzy70 I'm sure Nintendo has been working on a new 3d Mario. 5+ years seems like a long time in between 3D Mario releases, though.

Sounds like a somewhat toxic environment but not really oppressive. I've worked in environments like that.
Unfortunately, narcissistic people are likely to end up in leadership positions so toxic environments are commonplace

As somewhat of a consulation prize, at least it helps out their CV to have worked for such an accomplished studio.

@Rosalinho Thanks for the info. I read a little bit on it. Looks interesting. My takeaway now is that if the Nintendo doesn't have an EULA that states the software cannot be decompiled then the issue is a bit gray in terms of copyright violation.

@Darkcaptain3 I think maybe I wasn't clear enough. I meant to say that translation of the code without approval is probably a copyright violation. Also, the use of the characters in the game are almost certainly trademark violations even if they created new assets.

You raised a good point about Japanese law that I hadn't considered. My guess is this Ocarina of Time port would also be a violation of copyright and trademark law in the US, though.

Who knows what Nintendo will take action, though

You say this is legal. Did you get that from a lawyer or from the individuals behind the port? It sure doesn’t sound legal to me. What they are doing is translating, which is covered by copyright law. It’s NOT reverse engineering.

@Thoughts Front Mission is already getting remade.. Or are you referring to something more tactical?

@BenAV Last year had a number of interesting first party titles, but not many big first party releases. Most of the games were smaller titles, remasters or remakes. It might have had the largest number of first party titles of any year for the Switch, though.

@Mauzuri That's possible, but we do know Creatures is working on Detective Pikachu 2 but have not seen it yet. They could finally show it.

@jojobar HD2D has only been used for 4 games in 4 years, two of which are yet to be released and that’s overused?

@JakedaArbok I think Star Fox Zero could be made without the gamepad and Woolly World doesn’t need it at all. Not sure about Paper Mario. I hope they do give Star Fox Zero another chance

@RupeeClock I don’t mind it. In fact, I kind of like it. It’s fun getting new content.

@LordPieFace Yeah Brownie Brown works more as a studio that assists Nintendo's Tokyo studio, but that was probably understood when making the deal. I think they weren't developing their own IP at the time. They were just outsourced to develop games for IP of other companies.

There are counter examples.. like Monolithsoft is doing better under Nintendo. It has also become a more attractive destination because many employees get to work on Zelda as well. Next Level also appears to be doing well, though they are not developing their own IPs.

Babylon's Fall is likely to bomb though so they could be in somewhat of a bad position after that.

@Not_Soos I’ve only played Fire Emblem Warriors but it just took about 20 hours for me to beat and I’m not very fast. Not 100s of hours at all. But if you want to play it more there’s more content.., I imagine AOC is the same.

@Varkster I don’t think Mother 3 will generate much profit, but it will generate excitement from hardcore fans. That makes it a little harder to justify localization cause it is hard to estimate how much the excitement will impact Nintendo profits overall. I think they need to do things like that though.

@MajorTom I haven’t played any Pokémon games but Dragon Quest and Pokémon are far different games from what I can tell. One is an adventure game and the other is a collectathon. One is single player while the other is more geared more toward multiplayer. Not sure if it is s fair comparison.

@Rayquaza2510 2 years until the next system sounds okay to me which is what’s projected. This year is stacked so should tide people over. Typically the end of the lifespan does not coincide with the release of the next iteration. Usually it takes another 2 years unless demand has plummeted like the Wii or never existed like the WiiU. I think even the 3ds lasted a couple years after the Switch came out.

@nessisonett Degas paintings do not have copyright protection, though. Also, “decompiling” is equivalent to translation ( covered under copyright law) which would mean even the code is being copied. I don’t know intellectual property laws that well but this definitely seems to be a clear case of being on the wrong side of it both in terms of copyright and trademark laws if they distribute the game.

@Vincent294 Some people suffer from burnout more easily than others but 100 hour weeks will burn anyone out. Game development is definitely not a field for those who value leisure highly.

Japanese M&A’s lean toward the M while in the US they lean toward the A since Japanese culture is more cooperative than US culture. Sharp was sold to Foxconn a few years ago though. And companies like Rakuten, Cyberagent, Softbank, and even Recruit, which owns Indeed, are changing the climate in Japan.