| SuperNova said:
While it's true that the Splatoon Team is an offshoot of the Animal crossing team, almost none of the Splatoon Team ever worked on Animal crossing, they were recruited from all over Nintendo to build a new Team. The main Animal Crossing Team was free to develop something else in the meantime. Ever since Nintendo restuctured their software departments in 2015, every major Team works on two big games + one small game concurrently. (The only exeption being Team Zelda, who usually work on a console Zelda and a handheld Zelda concurrently with smaller handheld offshoots a la Triforce Heroes inbetween.) The big games in this case have been Splatoon and Splatoon 2 in quick succession, while the small games have been the dreadful animal crossing party game and Happy Home Designer. That means they are due for the next big game soon. The Team that is really awol is EAD 4, aka the pikmin Team. Their last release was Mario Maker in 2015... |
Sorry for the double posting but this guy posted this right after I posted the last thing. Anyway back on topic.
Yeah that makes a lot of sense. IDK how big the Animal Crossing team is so I am still wary of saying Animal Crossing is confirmed for 2018. Splatoon 1 and 2 were probably made quickly because it was using the same engine and the foundation was already set. Also they are going to be updating Splatoon 2 for a year or so straining resources a bit more. If it comes out in 2018 it will be in the Holidays that is for sure or early 2019.
