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Nintendo is so weird. Just tell people the frigging developers. Always hiding this is so weirdNintendo will not reveal who is developing Mario e Luigi Brothership, but stated some of it original staff is working on the game
Nintendo won’t reveal Mario & Luigi’s new developer, but says ‘original staff’ are invovled | VGC
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It should be especially understandable why they may want to refrain from disclosing the developer prior to launch in this situation where the developer may very well be one that people online love to hate on, like Arzest. I mean just look at how people here talk the moment Arzest is mentioned…
Nintendo may want to prevent making problem for themselves or devs before release, for example: leaks or blame. That is reasonable for them to do so, as most people don't care about the hiding.
I mean, I think if the developer behind a game is that make-or-break for someone, they can just wait until it actually comes out. Games don't have to be pre-ordered
I think 99.9% of consumers don’t give a damn who the developer of the Donkey Kong Country Returns remaster is. And the same goes for Mario and Luigi Brotherhood. Maybe we need to stop living in a bubble.
I agree 100%. But let me play devil's advocate, is there a difference is knowing 4 months ahead versus the day of release (or a couple of days before)?
I don't know if I would go as far as to use the term anti consumer, but the argument that information that could inform a purchase should be excluded because the majority doesn't care isn't a great argument. Sorry, I know this really isn't a large deal, but that is an actual argument that has been used by corporations to exclude certain information about more important things (I'm thinking beyond the games industry).
The fact is that no information is hidden here. It’s available to the consumer. That’s why I think that argument is flawed. Not knowing in advance penalizes a YouTuber or a member of Fami like you or me, but not a consumer who can inform himself before making a purchase.
I can agree with most of what you are saying. I think the point I'm getting at here from my end is that a consumer should have the choice of being able to purse an item further if they want. Essentially, while it wouldn't matter to a majority of folks buying the product, the options of them being able to look at the team behind the project and thus being able to come to a decision based on that information is something I think each person should have the option of doing.
You’re not annoyinh at all. These are interesting topics, and you are right, the presence of the developer’s name on the box is for example a real issue in terms of transparency. I think the idea that I was a little uncomfortable with in this conversation was rather a vast plot orchestrated by Nintendo. I think that Nintendo can have practices that really go against consumers, such as when they 'killed' Mario with SM3DAS. But here I just think it doesn’t even come to mind.
But isn't this a situation where you WILL know who is the studio making it before the purchase anyway? Nintendo not saying it now is meaningless since ultimately someone with an early copy will post online who is the studio behind it, or in the nigh impossible case where that somehow doesn't happen, you can just wait to buy it when it's posted online when the game is released.
This would be the case if these products weren't available to pre-order before we find out that information. I think the the customer has the option of purchasing the item then they should have all of the information at that particular point. Again, my argument is based on the idea, regardless of the reason why, that information has been withheld that could potentially inform the decision for someone to buy the product. There are justifiable reasons why that would be the case, but it could also easily be a case of wanting to consolidate their products under one banner.
A game’s developer will be known by the time the game launches. There’s not really any need to know beforehand. You don’t have to preorder games, after all—and even if you do preorder, it’s not like you can’t just cancel your preorder if the news of who’s developing the game is really that much of a dealbreaker to you, anyway. So I don’t really understand what the actual problem is that people have with a game’s developer not being revealed prior to launch, other than it just being a desire to know something sooner just because.
Personally, I don’t care either way. I don’t need to know the developer before launch. And Nintendo’s the one picking and choosing, not us. I’m sure they have their reasons, and who’s to say that the developers who aren’t being revealed before launch are even opposed to that at all? It could even be their preference, for all we know!
I wonder if they are here and they laugh at us
I mean they don’t really have much of a choice considering they only (really) make one game series that is pretty distinct from everything else Nintendo does. Even if they don’t explicitly tell people by throwing the logo up there or saying their name.
When was the last time Nintendo shared with a site what the developer is? anyone remember? to me it was in 2021. If not, i think much of this came from splatoon incident and aya situation in 2020its not only about revealing developers
recentily you got things like this :
where those photos used to be normal
staff interviews on their website that used to have photos and full names changed to only one name, most staff on facebook dont say where they work anymore, artists are using fake names to post art online, something bad must have happened and they changed some policies, gaming fans are well known for some bad behavior online
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I can tell you some people weren’t thrilled; in the same way some people weren’t thrilled when M&R was leaked. If I remember correctly at the announcement or close to it in which they posted about it.
Have we already forgotten about Nintendo canceling Nintendo Live because of threats against their employees’ lives?
this began with mario rpg at least it was the first time they were asked about who was developing it, probably because all previous titles were all assumed to be the same studio from usual.
It is Kevin Afghani. The rule of thumb here is that if it's a new game, they will use the new VA for Mario. While re-releases still respect original works by Martinet.
He's not, you can hear it's not Charles in the trailer
Yeah, this is also the case for the new Mario Party as the Japanese trailer gives us the clearest voice clip of one of characters Charles originally voiced (Waluigi) and instead of reusing a voice clip from one of the previous Mario Parties, it's a completely new voice clip and hence it being Kevin.
It was a really funny twitter account because as you said she's one of the highest ranked dev at Nintendo and yet she was so casual about her posting, saying hi to random people who had no idea who she was. But then after NH blew up I guess it was ruined.
It's so bizarre as Mario vs. Donkey Kong was entirely redone... WITH Charles Martinet apparently! Might've been the last recorded prior to Wonder and Move It, or remakes also count in bringing him back? Funny enough, Takashi Nagasako was DK in the remake, but the original was the last before his debut... EXCEPT even more ironically as his debut might actually have been the JP commercial for the game as a possible trial run, you can tell it's him:
) much like they did with Koei Tecmo and others.
