I know that. But I'm wondering how EPD delegates the leadership of its internal and external games respectively. Like Eguchi handles most external development, while Koizumi oversees internal development for example? Or does the top management at EPD just work on whatever the hell they want?
Definitely a mix as far as Mario 64 is concerned. Some updated textures like the Lethal Lava Land Bowser puzzle and Boo portraits in Big Boo's Haunt were remade using the original source art; but on the whole the majority of updated textures appear to simply be upscaled.
At the high level of management, they aren't involved at a notable level. Like Miyamoto, they may get directly involved but, it's more of a case by case basis like Eguchi being one of the developers of Super Mario World means they get involved at a supervisor level in big Mario spinoffs (Luigi's Mansion, Warioware and Paper Mario) and being the creator of Animal Crossing means they are more hands on with that series. It's hard to say why Eguchi is credited on some of these external titles but, Eguchi generally is in charge of EPD Kyoto with Koizumi in charge of EPD Tokyo. Terasaki is likely in charge of external productions themselves. EPD1 and EPD2 are still within Kyoto so sometimes they'll still credit him.
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Most likely but Switch Sports will be led by Shimamura. Not fully sure about 1-2 Switch since we never got a director credit.
For what it's worth, the eShop page for Strikers doesn't list a developer, it only lists Nintendo as the publisher. Luigi's Mansion 3 does list Next Level as the developer on its eShop page.
i think for a long time NLG wasn't confirmed as the dev for LM3 either.
Yep, as I added later, it's the safe assumption and has been reported by at least one source.
Yeah, that's another possibility. There are still some SMP leads that haven't been seen since.
Just realized one way to tell will be when the online test comes out, if the download's IP rights section shows the Bezel engine, then that will be a big indicator, as every game by ND Cube on Switch uses it and IIRC no other subsidiary uses it. Some 2nd/3rd-party devs used it, like the 99 series and WarioWare.
Brain Age and Big Brain Academy also use it. Probably the only internal EPD games that have used it so far.
I thought Grezzo did Miitopia last year?
2024 for 3D Mario seems to late, it could be crossgen title but i just don't see that. I think new 3D Mario will be announced this year and release in 2023.
God i just want to see it already! ARMS2 would be dope but really not for me, hoping for new IP that would be insane they can do it. If they are doing Nintendogs that would disappoint me a little bit.
I'm interested to see if there is more support for Switch Sports after golf comes out in fall. Hopefully Nintendo is supporting this game into 2023.
Yeah, I'd say it's not such a huge deal and seems a fairly efficient solution. What's interesting is that, with Kart 8 DX content, Switch Sports, and Splatoon 3 all launching in the next few months, there are 3 games launching in a short space of time which will have some degree of ongoing content support. Kart has a pretty efficient pipeline in place; Sports might be primarily EPD or there might be support coming from somewhere; Splatoon 3 is presumably primarily EPD, especially given they hired specifically for that project. It also makes sense as to why AC wrapped up last year - Nintendo can't really support too many of these types of things on an ongoing basis.
Yep, this was the next point I was going to make. They have experience with the series, including with Tour.
Yeah, they're both candidates, I think. But EPD 9 have definitely been the EPD group that's most difficult to parse. Who saw the Booster pass coming, especially at this juncture?
I think this is going to depend on commercial reception and whatever development arrangement is in place. I think the game would certainly benefit from ongoing support, if Nintendo can manage it consistently and do communicate a little better than they have done with some other games.
if you told me the Ninjala devs made this, I'd believe you. feels closer to that than Family Vacation
Indies Zero did those though.
They co-developed them, but most of the planning and design was done internally.
Yeah, but namco did Wii Sports Club so it kind of make sense
“Large part” and “again” need clarification. Now there can be some grounds for speculating that Nintendo may offload the entire DLC to NBG to save resources for other things, but this would be a jump from their previous support role. A huge jump actually.
They dont want,every studio outsources nowadays,even indie studios,compared to western studios nintendo at least keep at 2/3 partners max
they aren't moving away from outsourcing, they want to outsource less per game
