TheMisterManGuy on 05 August 2018
| curl-6 said: I'm not saying they should stop releasing mid tier games. But that's what secondary teams like Monolith and Nd Cube or outsourcing to devs like Namco Bandai are for. A flagship EPD team like Mario Kart crew are too important to waste on games that don't push hardware or bring in the big bucks. |
Nintendo only turns to outsourcing if their internal teams can't come up with new ideas for a series, or in the case of the later Yamauchi days, when the don't have dev kits for another Nintendo platform. That's a major reason why F-Zero shifted to NdCube for Maximum Velocity, EAD was silosed away from GBA development. Unless they end up in that creative block, ARMS 2 has no reason to be outsourced. Nintendo doesn't care if the Producer of the Mario Kart series didn't make the next Mario Kart-like 10m+ seller. He's a man who made a successful new IP, that's good enough for them.
