Monolith Soft is working on Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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zorg1000 said:

curl-6 said:

I doubt Monolith has any influence over the game's story.

While I agree Nintendo needs to hire more dev teams, Monolith has been helping out with EAD games for a while now. They worked on Skyward Sword and Pikmin 3 as well. Their next game wouldn't be due out until at least 2018 anyway, probably longer, so they may as well help to ensure that NX gets a strong launch title in Breath of the Wild.

Couldnt it be argued that working on Skyward Sword & Pikmin 3 is what caused Monolith Soft to take 5 years between Xenoblade & Xenoblade X?

One could indeed theorize that. But we could also theorize that without their help, games Skyward Sword, Splatoon, and Pikmin 3 could taken even longer to come out. As painful as the wait for XCX was, (exacerbated by the absurd 9 month wait from its Japanese release to its Western release, which was kind of out of Monolith's hands and down to just bad management by Nintendo proper) I'd say any setbacks caused by their work on other titles was worth it if it meant multiple other games arrived sooner.