Daisuke is decent, but i want someone who doesnt feels like he is a discount version of yamamoto.
Not everyone updates their profiles or he may want the game to actually release before he updates it
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Breath of the Wild development was nowhere near that. With marketing, probably.
Yeah. Cinematics and high production values (such as lip sync for various languages, high quality textures and other stuff) are probably the stuff that weights the most
Yeah that's what I thought, the Switch port probably cost a tiny bit too, but maybe TOTK was more expensive to make, the difference between the two is probably not much either way!
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I mean Odyssey was in active dev (I recall hearing about how it was basically finished when first revealed but we saw minor texture touchups) for like 3 years vs BOTW 6 so
im not sure what retro could offer that the other studios havent already got it covered. Neither NLG tbh but they feel closer to EPD than Retro lol
nst i do feel will be playing a lot of support, although i also think they will be returning to making games by themselves in the close future, but yeah its difficult to imagine what retro and nlg would do. NLG i could see giving some animation support but retro feels kinda self contained at nintendo.
I was under the impression it started dev soon after the final DLC dropped (probably as more DLC at first since they said was DLC originally)
NST doing a good chunk of Bowser's Fury feels like it could be the start of a paradigm shift in terms of international involvement, as important as Retro and NLG have been their involvement has been either new takes on series or dormant series, mainline mario (not to say Luigi's Mansion isn't a huge deal now cause it is) is another level
I mean Woolly World was kinda infamous for being in directs for like 2 and a half years, but that was also somewhat Wii U era doctrine to show off everything they could, and Crafted World was also 2 years but was shown off again once actually close. Arguably Nintendo did the same show off everything with Switch at first with Prime 4 and Crafted World (and Pikmin carry over (and Bayo 3)) but they've cooled it since, only thing to note is unlike those examples as well as Xbox and Sony, in the case of Crafted World (and Woolly but that was more normal Wii U) they initially revealed with footage, others were title tease
i dont think nst will be the "monolith soft of the mario franchise". I wouldn't mind it but i hope not, unless they start doing their own games as well, i kinda dont like how many studios at nintendo are dedicated to mario, we need more original stuff.
BOTW was not in development for 6 years. It started full production in January 2013. So little over 4 years with also release on Switch.
3D Zelda is much more complex than post-Sunshine Mario. Even sandbox Mario, with it's discrete sections, doesn't require the same level of advance planning that Zelda, with all its interlocking parts requires. Galaxy 2 and 3D World shows how Mario can take a previous game's mechanics, ideas, and assets, and spin a whole new game out of them, while Zelda's attempts to do the same got us Link's Crossbow Training.
nothing about 3d mario strikes me as particularly intensive for nintendo. I could probably say that luigi's mansion 3 is probably as expensive as it was, considering the high amount of quality cinematics and details that the game features. And certainly odyssey wasnt nearly as expensive as the most expensive nintendo titles.
Always been like this,even Mario Party games have a much bigger team than mainline Mario
I mean, arguably Retro and NLG already get to lead design on their own IPs (Metroid Prime and Luigi’s Mansion/Mario Strikers, respectively). Of course, if you mean wholly original IPs, that’s a distinct possibility; I think it’s more likely that Retro takes that path, since NLG doesn’t seem too interested in doing so ATM.
Actual development of Breath of the Wild only started in January 2013, we know as much from interviews/development documentary. Odyssey took the same ~4 years to make. I'm dead certain the reports about the game being basically done by the time it was revealed only meant content complete, as we saw major polish from January to E3 to release.
I doubt the game actually started development as DLC. I think it was more of leftover DLC ideas that never actually gone beyond pre-production instead of actual DLC turning into a game mid-dev.
Development time of 3D Mario has been comparable to that of 3D Zelda(Galaxy, Odyssey and whatever the next 3D Mario is taking about the same time in the making as Twilight Princess, BotW and TotK respectively) and so are marketing pushes.
no,the epd tokyo team for odyssey was not even 80 devs,with epd kyoto and 1-UP it was around 140
I can see that NLG might be doing that (i think they are already codeveloping mp4 in some way, like helping with cinematics and the such) but like someone else above said, i see that its more likely that retro will try once again to get another ip out of the door, ESPECIALLY, if they manage to create a second studio.
it was a tanabe production with almost 0 budget and they needed some english voice acting,it was quicker to just ask retro staff to record some lines
but like i asked earlier, what could retro offer that the japanese studios couldn't do? I mean we dont even know retro's capabilities right now, we know they re still damn good at visuals and performance but retro wouldn't be able to make totk run at 60fps for example lol.
My bet is on Kawmoto being promoted to Switch 2 producer and someone else from one of the current EPD teams taking his role as hardware director.
That's exactly what I think will happen, Koizumi will probably don't have the Producer role again given that he is also Director at Nintendo Pictures.
Honestly, that’s what I wanted to get at as well. I think for now, there isn’t really much NLG or Retro could offer that say, Monolith Soft couldn’t. I’m sure if and when EPD needs their expertise, they’ll ask them to help out, but until them I doubt we’ll see them support any EPD projects.
didn't they sort of dip their toe into that one with DKCTF where Monster Games did some additional support work alongside them, with the DKCR3D port and extra levels being their test run? or do you mean more the Western subsidiaries are doing the additional development for an EPD project, kinda like how they did Mario Kart 7?
Strikers was made inbetween acquisition and the previous arrangement (two years after Luigi 3, roughly a year before Strikers came out). Luigi's mansion 2 came out a decade ago, there's lots of wild typos in your post
Nintendo has a reputation for preferring to keep folks on staff, and lean on contractors less, and aggressively doing this sort of work shift is how they do it.
i wish the next mario game had cinematics on the level of a luigi's mansion game.
loloops sorry, must've entered the wrong universe where we're caring about cinematics in a mario game
how about the next mario game just doesn't have any cinematics beyond a few camera sweeps
