SpokenTruth said:
teigaga said:
Because they believe the additional content will satisify fans of the franchises (for now) and alongside other original Switch/Nintendo games & Switches Portability, core Nintendo fans will easily be converted into Switch owners and this in turn will free up resources for Smash/Kart teams to work on other projects.
Also...Hal Labratories never moves from one Smash Bros to another, they normally do an alternative project(s) in between (Kirby/Kid icarus) and Smash typically takes 3years to develop. Since the last Smash Bros game came out relatively recently (2 years) they still haven't release their alternative project game, going along their usual trajectory we shouldn't see a new Smash Bros til 2020 at the earliest (2021 is more likely imo). Since the Switch already will have a Smash Bros on it, Nintendo may just move it to the Switch 2 or make it cross gen with Switch 2.
As a hypothetical situation where Hal could possibly be working on a new big Pokemon RPG with gamefreak since 2015. Nintendo required help to jump to the HD era for Smash (assisted by Namco) and Pokemon will be an even bigger task. Hals assistance could make a 2017/18 release date possible whereas otherwise Pokemon Switch may have be a 2019/2020 title. Alternatively Hal Labratories go for a whole new IP and try to replicate the success of Splatoon/create another phenomenom
Lots of potential reasons :)
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You do know that Hal Labs didn't develop Smash Wii U/3DS, right?
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This is news to me. I just checked and it seems they co-developed a 3DS version alongside another team but didn't have involvement in the Wii U.
