zorg1000 said:
SuperNova said: I'm wondering more where Nintendos internal Studios are. |
Zelda: Breath of the Wild, 1 2 Switch, Mario Kart Deluxe, ARMS, Splatoon 2, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Super Mario Odyssey
That's seven 1st party titles we know about and its very likely they are saving some announcements for E3 or future directs.
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BoTW is from the Zelda Team, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and ARMS are from the same Team, Splatoon 2 is part of the Animal Crossing Team, Super Mario Odyssey is the 3D world/Captain Toad Team, Xenoblade 2 is Monolith. 1 2 Switch are the Miitopia guys. That leaves several of Nintendos internal developement studios that are due for a game unaccounted for. Most prominently EPD 4, Retro and Next Level games. (Yeah, I know NLG are technically second party but they work exclusively with Ninty now, so I'm including them.)
Arzest is working on the 3ds Pikmin.
Good-Feel has been working on the Yoshis Woolly World 3DS port, but it's unlikely that they needed their whole team for that, so they probably have something on the backburner that they've been working on since Woolly World for WiiU was completed (possibly woolly DK, since retro isn't working on that series anymore). They have a long developement cycle though, so it's unlikely that we'll see anything from them soon.)
EPD 1
EPD 1 has been working on ARMS, probably with the majority of the Team, while the rest was busy porting Mario Kart 8 deluxe and making a proper battle mode for that. They might have a small core team working on the next Mario Kart as well, ready to begin proper production once ARMS is out, but that's just speculation.
EPD 2
EPD 2 has partly been working on Splatoon 2, while the Aminal crossing side of the team (there's almost no overlap between the two teams as far as we know, only the EX-Animal Crossing Director got put in charge of Splatoon) has been putting out smaller stuff like Happy Home Designer and the New Leaf Update. I feel like they probably have a small core team working on a new Animal Crossing also, but there's really no way to be sure.
EPD 3
Team Zelda. Nuff said.
EPD 4
The biggest mystery to me is EPD 4, wich do 2D Mario and Pikmin and are completely MIA. My closest guess is that they were developing Pikmin 4 wich was nearing completion in September 2015 according to Miyamoto and have done the SMM 3DS port since, wich really shouldn't take their whole team. They've either run into massive developement problems with bringing Pikmin 4 from WiiU to Switch, or have the game finished sitting on a shelf and have been working on something new with the majority of the team.
EPD 5
Made Star Fox 0 in collaboration with Platnium. Not sure how big this Team is and if they are capable of woking two Projects at once. If they are, they are due for a game, if they aren't it's probably not until next year that we will see anything out of them since they only would have started Developement in early 2016.
EPD 6
Miitopia and 1 2 Switch. All we could really expect.
EPD 7
They make Rythm Heaven and Wario Ware as well as Mii games (MiiTomo, Tomodachi Life) and are currently unaccounted for. (This might be the same Team as EPD 6 though? The fact that they did miitopia makes me think it's likely. I haven't found concrete sources for this and have seen them listed as seperate Teams so that's what I did here. )
EPD 8
3D Mario. Currently working on Mario Odyssey.
EPD 9 (+10?)
Again, confusion starts to arise when we get into the smaller development teams at nintendo. Consensus seems to be 3DS projects (Louvre guide and Streetpass) and N64 ports (Zelda OoT and MM) are handled by them. Other than that they help out other teams when needed. Used to make Brain age games.
Other Studios:
Monolith
Xenoblade 2. They've supposedly been working on a 3DS RPG since 2013. They were hiring character designers and art directors for that. With the Xenoblade port, I wonder if Xenoblade 2 was initially intended for 3DS and later moved over to the Switch. That would explain how the game is simultaniously far enough in development to apparently release this year as well as the somewhat lackluster environments compared to Xenoblade Chronicles X, despite being on a stronger machine. Their Kyoto studio is helping out with Zelda.
Retro
Retro is unaccounted for. They were rumored to be big enough to work on two games at the same time, a while back. Rumors also suggest Diddy Kong Racing in collaboration with Monster and a new IP from Retro.
HAL
Recenly released Kirby. Is working on Box Boy 3. Might be working on Kirby or helping out with a Smash port.
ND Cube
Mario Party.
Camelot
Is doing the new 3DS Mario Sports game. (I forget what it's called.)
Intelligent Systems
Apparently have up to 4 teams. Fire Emblem came out in Summer 2015 in Japan. It's save to say that they've been working on the next one, possibly for the Switch, ever since. Might be too early to show off though. E3 Maybe? We do know that a Pushmo WiiU game has repeadedly been put on the back burner, so the team could assist with a switch title.
Paper Mario just came out. Barring a Switch port of Color Splash we wont hear anything Paper Mario related in the next 3-4 years.
The Codename S.T.E.A.M. team should be working on something as well.
Grezzo
Grezzo is developing Ever Oasis for 3DS.
Next Level Games
They have two teams and should be able to work on two games simultaniously. Federation Force just released last year, but they should have another game almost finished. Luigis Mansion Switch?
There. Sorry for the mega-post, but that's all Ii could find on it. There should be a potential 6-7 first party games ready this year, unless nintendo ran into big developement troubles for the Switch. It's save to say that quite a few resources went into 3DS ports and general support though. Even though they dropped all support for WiiU basically in 2015, dialed back 3DS support and put smaller recources into 'quick ports' of WiiU games (or in Splatoon 2s case, reusing the WiiU engine), Nintendo still seems to have trouble to support two Platforms at once.
I get why they're not wiling to drop 3DS support yet, and their willingness to license their IP like with Hyrule Warriors and Pokken will help, but they really need to get their act toghether.
ARMS looks amazing, but for 1 2 Switch the value is just not there for the price they're asking. Splatoon 2 needs to do a little more than just have new gear/weapons and maps, for me. If they have an expanded single player campaign I'm in. Mario looks good, but is far off and I'm cautious about the possibility of Xenoblade 2 being delayed. BotW and MK8 Deluxe are ports and at least in MK8 Deluxes case, there's little incentive to get it as a WiiU owner.