Sony's gonna have a easier time in 2008

[naznatips]

fkusumot said:

naznatips said:

 

As far as the rest of the Wii's lineup, most of the sequels to the GC's best selling games have yet to be released. Mario Kart DD and Super Smash Bros. Melee were the two best selling GC games and both of them are being released next year. Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Mario Basebal, and Kirby all have games set for release next year as well. Nintendo also has Wii Fit, Wii Music, Wii Chess, massive amounts of Wii Ware games, and Disaster: Day of Crisis as new IPs. That's not counting anything unannounced.

From third parties they have Tales of Symphonia: KoR, Baten Kaitos 3, Oboro Muramasa, Fragile, Okami, Harvest Moon, Monster Hunter 3, King Story, FFCC:TCB, No More Heroes, Monster Lab, Wii Ware games like FFCC:TYKatPL, and more.

naz - Nintendo internal development looks something like this. The list is a month old but it's fairly accurate.

Nintendo's Teams

EAD Software Development Group No. 1 - Hideki Konno
- Wii Fit
- Mario Kart Wii

EAD Software Development Group No. 2 - Katsuya Eguchi
- Wii Music
- Animal Crossing Wii
- Wii Motor Sports

EAD Software Development Group No. 3 - Eiji Aonuma
- ?

EAD Software Development Group No. 4 - Hiroyuki Kimura
- ?

EAD Software Development Group No. 5 - Takao Shimizu
- ?

Software Planning and Development Division No. 1 - Yoshio Sakamoto
- Card Hero DS

Software Planning and Development Division No. 2 - Hitoshi Yamagami
- Dr. Mario Wii

Software Planning and Development Division No. 3 - Kensuke Tanabe
- Various collaborations internal and external

Software Planning and Development Division No. 4 - Shinya Takakashi
- Wii Channels
- DS Letter Training

Intelligent Systems
- Card Hero DS
- Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
- Fire Emblem DS

Game Freak
- ?

HAL Laboratory Inc.
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Kirby Wii (GC pic)
- Kirby Super Star Deluxe

Genius Sonority - Manabu Yamana
- DS Literature Collection

Monolith Soft - Hirohide Sugiura
- Disaster: Day of Crisis
- Soma Bringer

Retro Studios - Michael Kelbaugh
- ?

Nintendo Software Technology Corp. - Shigeki Yamashiro
- ?

Nintendo Studio (All-Star Smash Group - EAD/HAL Labs/Sora + another team)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Collaborations with 3rd Parties:
Namco Bandai - Mario Baseball Stadium
Ambrella - Pokémon Ranch
Mitchell - Puzloop Wii
Mindware - WiiWare title
Paon - Eternal Chronicle
Hudson - Mario Party DS

Announced games, possible teams:
Nintendo Crossword DS - NST
Donkey Kong Wii - EAD
Wii Chess - NST/Agenda
TBA - Skip (stated they have a new title for Nintendo in development)

Expected games, possible teams:
NSMB 2 - EAD
Pikmin 3 - EAD
Zelda Wii - EAD
Starfox - EAD
Yoshi's Island Wii - Artoon

Interesting.  So 17 teams, multiple projects within teams, and some 3rd party collaborations.  They didn't predict any work being done on an F-Zero or 1080 Snowboarding game. That's odd.  Retro announced they were working on 2 games, neither of them Metroid.  Nintendo claims many of their internal studios are working on Wii Ware titles, so that could explain some of those holes.