Lately there have been a lot of negative Nintendo threads with little to no effort put into them and that bums me out. So I decided to make a thread with effort put into it that can lead to interesting discussions. And above all: be useful. Feel free to discuss what games you expect or want to see on the Wii U and 3DS!
- | Software Development Group No. 1 | Software Development Group No. 2 | Software development Group No. 3 | Software Development Group No. 4 | Software Development Group No. 5 |
Latest Projects | Mario Kart 7 (2011) and Mario Kart 8 (2014) | Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2012), Nintendo Land (2012), Wii U Sports Club (2013) and Splatoon (2015) | The Legend of Zelda: A Link between Worlds (2013) | New Super Mario Bros. U (2012), New Super Luigi U (2013) and Pikmin 3 (2013) | Wii Fit U (2013) and Steel Diver: Sub Wars (2014) |
Current Projects | Unknown | Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival (2015) | The Legend of Zelda Wii U (2016), The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes (2015) | Mario Maker (2015) | Star Fox Zero* (2015) |
Rumours | - | - | - | - | - |
* Co-developed with Platinum Games.
- | Software Development Group No. 1 | Software Development Group No. 2 | Software Development Group No. 3 |
Latest Project | The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D* (2011) | Super Mario 3D Land (2011), Super Mario 3D World (2013), Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (2014) and NES Remix 1 & 2. | Unknown |
Current Project | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D* (2015) | Untitled Super Mario game (unknown platform). | Unknown |
Rumours | - | - | The whole existence of this "new" development group is a rumour. Nintendoeverything posted the following interesting tidbit: "You might be interested in that final department – EAD Tokyo 3. Nintendo-Online previously published a speculative report that a third EAD Tokyo team was founded with Koichi Hayashida as producer and team leader." |
*Co-developed with Grezzo
- | Production Group No. 1 | Production Group No. 2 | Production Group No. 3 | Production Group No. 4 |
Latest Project | Tomodachi Life (2013) and Game & Wario (2013) | - | Responsible for overseeing the development of titles by overseas and outhouse teams like Retro Studios and Next Level Games. | Responsible for overseeing the development of titles by external Japanese teams: Wii Party U* (2013), Mario Party: Island Tour* (2013), Mario Golf: World Tour ** (2013) |
Current Project | Unknown | The primary focus of this studio is to co-develop games in cooperation with Japanese third party developers and Japanese subsidiaries of Nintendo. They are involved with Project STEAM, Devil's third, Xenoblade Chronicles X and Fossil Fighters: Frontiers. | - | - |
Rumours | - | - | - | - |
*Co-produced with Nd-Cube.
**Co-produced with Camelot.
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Intelligent Systems |
1-Up Studio | Monolith Soft | Nd-Cube | Nintendo Software Technology |
Latest Project | Fire Emblem: Awakening (2013) |
Super Mario 3D World** (2013) and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker** (2014) |
Xenoblade Chronicles (2010) | Wii Party U (2013), Mario Party: Island Tour (2013) and Mario Party 10 (2015) | Mario vs. Donkey Kong (2015) |
Current Project | Genei Ibun Roku #FE* (2015) and Fire Emblem: Fates (2016). | Most likely co-developing the new Super Mario game that has been announced. | Xenoblade Chronicles X (2015), unknown new title in the works already | Unknown | Unknown |
Rumours | - | - | - | - | - |
*Mostly developed by Atlus though.
**Co-developed with Nintendo EAD Tokyo software development group no. 2.
- | Retro Studios | HAL Laboratory | Game Freak |
Latest Project | Mario Kart 7* (2011), Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze** (2014) | Kirby: Triple Deluxe (2013) and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (2015) | Pokémon X/Y (2013) and Pokémon ORAS (2014) |
Current Project | Unknown. They have been working on a new game since november 2013. | Unknown | Unknown. Likely Pokémon "Z" or Pokémon X/Y 2. |
Rumour | - | - | - |
*They developed most of the retro stages in this title.
**Co-developed with Monster Games.
- | Next Level Games | AlphaDream Corporation | Camelot Software Planning | Grezzo | Monster Games | Good-Feel | Valhalla Game Studios | Atlus | Platinum Games | Namco Bandai |
Latest Project | Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (2013) | Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (2013) | Mario Tennis Open (2012) and Mario Golf: World Tour (2014) | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (2011) | Donkey Kong Country: Returns 3DS (2013) and Xenoblade Chronicles 3D (2015) | Kirby's Epic Yarn (2011) | - | - | The Wonderful 101 (2013) and Bayonetta 2 (2014) | Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS (2014) |
Current Project | Shit on a stick (2016). They announced in January 2014 that they will work exclusively with Nintendo from now on. | Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (2016) | Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash (2015) | Unknown | Unknown | Yoshi's Woolly World (2015) | Devil's Third (2015) | Genei Ibun Roku #FE* (2015) | Star Fox Zero | Pokkén Tournament (2015) and Project Treasure (2015) |
Rumours | According to one of the guys from Unseen64 they're also working on a Wii U game. It might have been transferred to the NX now though. | - | - | - | ^ | - | - | - | - | - |
- | Capcom | Level-5 | Shin'en |
Last project(s) | Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (2012), Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (2015) | Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2012), Yo-kai Watch 1 (2013/Japan) Fantasy Life (2014), Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (2013), Yo-kai Watch 2 (2014/Japan) Yo-kai Watch 2: Shinguchi (2014/Japan) | Nano Assault Neo (2012) |
Current project(s) | Monster Hunter Stories, Monster Hunter X | Yo-kai Watch: Busters (2015/Japan), Yo-kai Watch 1 (2015-2016/the West), Yo-kai Watch 3 (2016/Japan), The Snack World (2016/Japan) | Fast Racing Neo (2015) |
Rumours | - | - | - |