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curl-6 on 09 December 2014
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the_dengle said:
curl-6 said:

You actually make a good point, but I still think the amount of delays on Wii U, (not that Nintendo are by any means alone in this department, of course) are indicative of the same underestimation of HD development that hit just about every other major developer in the early years of the PS3 and 360.

They certainly were. But Mario Maker was never delayed (to our knowledge) and is the third HD game being made by EAD 4 (fourth counting NSLU). So it's not exactly an early-generation game for this particular developer.

Regardless, we don't know the whole development period. Did work on Mario Maker begin after NSLU was released? Or perhaps after the Pikmin DLC was finished? Maybe it only had a small core group of designers working on it for a short time.

Damn I wish Iwata Asks would come back.

Agreed on Iwata Asks.

Can we really count Mario Maker as a "HD game" in terms of development though? I reckon it's probably no more demanding in that regard than a Wii title.