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alejollorente10 on 20 March 2020

I think the direct was going to happen a lot earlier but there had to be some delay or some change of plans on the fly. That said, this week or the week after that there should be a direct. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and I hope that what is shown in the next Direct is worth the 6-month wait.



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curl-6 on 21 March 2020
trunkswd said:
Farsala said:

So the Splatoon team is a workhhorse. It seems to me that the Mario Kart team is slacking, while the 3D mario team still has quite a bit of time to work on their next project. Zelda games are bigger, but more details would be nice.

With Mario Kart 8 Deluxe selling so well I don't see Mario Kart 9 until Nintendo's next platform. Though, it doesn't rule out a different racing game from them. I am still holding out hope for a new Diddy Kong Racing.

A new Diddy Kong Racing would be freaking awesome, as someone who played MK8 to death way back in 2014 and has been craving new kart racers I'd gobble that up.

Loved the 64 game back in the 90s, but its hard to play nowadays.



KLXVER on 21 March 2020
curl-6 said:
trunkswd said:

With Mario Kart 8 Deluxe selling so well I don't see Mario Kart 9 until Nintendo's next platform. Though, it doesn't rule out a different racing game from them. I am still holding out hope for a new Diddy Kong Racing.

A new Diddy Kong Racing would be freaking awesome, as someone who played MK8 to death way back in 2014 and has been craving new kart racers I'd gobble that up.

Loved the 64 game back in the 90s, but its hard to play nowadays.

Have you checked out Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled? Its awesome 



curl-6 on 21 March 2020
KLXVER said:
curl-6 said:

A new Diddy Kong Racing would be freaking awesome, as someone who played MK8 to death way back in 2014 and has been craving new kart racers I'd gobble that up.

Loved the 64 game back in the 90s, but its hard to play nowadays.

Have you checked out Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled? Its awesome 

I have indeed, love that game. :)



Azzanation on 21 March 2020
curl-6 said:

When it comes to treating their fans like crap, nobody does it quite like Nintendo.

You want release dates? Something to look forward to? You want actual new games on your new console? Fuck you. 

I swear they get off on depriving people of what they want.

Nintendo dont give out dates because they dont have dead lines like the other two. There are exceptions to the rule however Nintendo release games when they are ready.



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curl-6 on 21 March 2020
trunkswd said:
curl-6 said:

A new Diddy Kong Racing would be freaking awesome, as someone who played MK8 to death way back in 2014 and has been craving new kart racers I'd gobble that up.

Loved the 64 game back in the 90s, but its hard to play nowadays.

I've gone back and replayed Diddy Kong Racing. I think it holds up better than Mario Kart 64. 

Neither of them is really playable to me nowadays to be honest, they've both aged really poorly, like most 3D games of their era to be fair.

Anyway, since MK9 is in my opinion best left for Switch 2, a Diddy Kong Racing sequel in the mean time would be awesome. I just hope they don't fall back on one of their worst habits of this gen and just remake the 64 one instead of creating an original title.



curl-6 on 21 March 2020
trunkswd said:
curl-6 said:

Neither of them is really playable to me nowadays to be honest, they've both aged really poorly, like most 3D games of their era to be fair.

Anyway, since MK9 is in my opinion best left for Switch 2, a Diddy Kong Racing sequel in the mean time would be awesome. I just hope they don't fall back on one of their worst habits of this gen and just remake the 64 one instead of creating an original title.

I wouldn't mind taking inspiration from the first one and build upon it. Like having an overworld that is similar to the first, but make it bigger and have more to find. I like the boss races as well. But when you had to go and do each race a second time to get all the coins I'd be okay leaving out. 

Inspiration is fine, I just want it to be an actual new game in the franchise, not just a remake.

One of my biggest pet peeves with Nintendo this gen is their over-reliance on re-releasing/remaking old games instead of making new entries.



Kai_Mao on 21 March 2020

SpokenTruth said:
Since the restructuring of the Entertainment Analysis and Development divisions into the Entertainment Planning and Development divisions, the group numbers and team structures have become less rigid.

These are as close as we can get to solid teams and the games/IP they focus on. That said, one group may help another group. They are much more flexible now.

EPD Group 1 - Assists 2nd part and 3rd party developers.
EPD Group 2 - Assists 2nd part and 3rd party developers. Mario spin offs, Smash Bros, Kirby, Yoshi, etc..
EPD Group 3 - Zelda.
EPD Group 4 - 1-2 Switch, Labo, Ring Fit Adventure
EPD Group 5 - Splatoon, Animal Crossing (With Group 9).
EPD Group 6 - Assists 2nd part and 3rd party developers.
EPD Group 7 - Assists 2nd part and 3rd party developers.
EPD Group 8 - Mario.
EPD Group 9 - Mario Kart, ARMS, Pikmin, Animal Crossing (with Group 5).
EPD Group 10 - Pikmin, Super Mario Maker, New Super Mario World,.


Not to mention:

- Intelligent Systems: Rumored to be working on a Paper Mario game and didn’t have a lot of staff working on FE: 3H (majority was from Koei Tecmo)

- Monolith Soft: just increased their staff to 243 people and 4 studios. They’re likely delegating one studio to help with BoTW2 and the others to work on Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition and their upcoming new IP (or new Xeno game). 

- Next Level Games: Just released Luigi’s Mansion 3. They’ll likely have another project in the pipeline.

- Retro Studios: While they haven’t done much since DKC: TF, they have assisted in developing MK7 and are working on MP4.

Nintendo can delegate different studios to work on various projects. Not to mention, they have often collaborated with third party partners with their big games (I.e., Astral Chain, Mario + Rabbids, FE: 3H, TMS: #FE, Hyrule/Fire Emblem Warriors, etc.).

So I think it’s not like they have some studios just twirling their thumbs. They just take time. Nintendo has published about close to a dozen games a year (even more before with 3DS/Wii U). I don’t think even Sony or Microsoft have published that many a year, let alone develop and release, unless someone can tell me otherwise.



VAMatt on 21 March 2020
KLXVER said:
Well if we disregard third parties, then both the PS4 and XB1 has had similar droughts. XB1 has probably had even worse ones.

Sure.  And people have been going on and on about the lack of games in XBone for years now.  "Probably " not having as  bad a drought as XB1 is not good enough.  



VAMatt on 21 March 2020
curl-6 said:
trunkswd said:

I wouldn't mind taking inspiration from the first one and build upon it. Like having an overworld that is similar to the first, but make it bigger and have more to find. I like the boss races as well. But when you had to go and do each race a second time to get all the coins I'd be okay leaving out. 

Inspiration is fine, I just want it to be an actual new game in the franchise, not just a remake.

One of my biggest pet peeves with Nintendo this gen is their over-reliance on re-releasing/remaking old games instead of making new entries.

In some sense, I feel like I got punished for being a loyal Ninty fan that bought a WiiU.  They've re-released a bunch of the best games, so they haven't given me as much new stuff to play this gen.  MK8 is the most egregious example.  There should be a new Kart by now.