| NiKKoM said: How is Mario Party not coming back? All the lead staf went from Hudon to NdCube.. Am I missing something? it seems to me that Nintendo reformed NdCube specially for Mario Party.. |
"All the lead staff" is a bit of a misnomer, it's just two project leads that left Hudson for NdCube. It's like saying "all the lead staff" left Capcom's Zelda team for EAD, when it was really just the director of Minish Cap.
The OP's source is also wrong about the long uncredited Mario Party series co-developer, it's actually a company called CAProduction, which Hudson helped form in the early 1990s from former Tecnosoft staff (of Thunderforce series fame). They made 'hardcore' action and shooting games like Hagane and Gates of Thunder before starting on the original Mario Party. They've co-developed every game in the series with Hudson except Mario Party Advance (which was co-developed with a now defunct company called Amble) and they're continuing that relationship with the Deca Sports series now. Monegi was just a paper company/PR stunt afaik.
