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puffy on 07 May 2010

Just added Wii Party developed by EAD2 (They do all of the Wii Series apart from Wii Fit)



 

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puffy on 17 June 2010

I've updated the OP in the aftermath of E3:

2010
  • EAD2 - Wii Relax
  • EAD2 - Pilotwings Resort
  • EAD2 - Starfox 64 3D
  • EAD Tokyo - Super Mario Galaxy 2
  • SPD 1 - Metroid: Other M
  • SPD 3 - Donkey Kong Country Returns
  • Unknown - Steel Diver
  • Brownie Brown - Livly Garden
  • Intelligent Systems - Fire Emblem Remake DS
  • NST - Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem
  • Monolith Soft - Xenoblade
  • Project SORA - Kid Icarus: Uprising
  • Retro Studios - Donkey Kong Country Returns
  • Artoon - Fling Smash
  • Camelot - Golden Sun DS
  • Cing - Last Window
  • Creatures Inc. - Pokemon Ranger: Path of Light/Guardian Signs
  • Creatures Inc. - Spin Six
  • Gaia - Cosmic Walker
  • Game Freak - Pokemon Black/White
  • Grezzo - Lina Attack Heroes
  • Good-Feel, Inc - Kirby's Epic Yarn
  • Mistwalker - The Last Story
  • Nd Cube - Wii Party
  • Noise - ArcoKnights
  • Project M - Metroid: Other M
  • Q-Games - 3D Space Tank
  • Shift - Ando Kensaku
  • Skip Ltd. - Art Style: Light Trax
  • Skip Ltd. - Art Style: Rotozoa
2011
  • EAD1 - Nintendogs Cats
  • EAD2 - Animal Crossing 3DS
  • EAD3 - The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
  • EAD3 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
  • EAD4 - Pikmin 3
  • Intelligent Systems - Paper Mario 3D
  • Monolith Soft - Baiten Kaitos Wii
  • Game Freak - Pokemon Grey
  • HAL Laboratory - Unannounced Title (hopefully)
  • Next Level Games - Unannounced Wii Title (Wii Punch-Out 2?)
  • Square-Enix - Mario Sports Mix

2012 

  • EAD1 - Mario Kart 3DS
  • EAD2 - Unannounced Title
  • EAD4 - New Super Mario Bros. 3DS
  • EAD Tokyo - Unannounced title
You'll notice a few things..
- HAL continues to be MIA (Kirby: Epic Yarn is not developed by them but by the team behind Wario Land: The Shake Dimension)
- The Wii 2011 lineup looks pretty uneventful apart from Pikmin 3 and Zelda: Skyward Sword
- The Wii 2012 lineup looks dead, with major focus already shifted to the 3DS and certainly switching to the Wii successor


 

trestres on 18 June 2010

Where did you get confirmation from all the games devs? Is there some speculation or are all of them official?

HAL is making Kirby with Good-Feel I think.
ND Cube isn't making Wii Party as far as I know.
We don't know who is making Wii Relax or PilotWings Resort.
SPD3 is really working on DKCR?



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jarrod on 18 June 2010

It was confirmed that Sakurai (ie: Project Sora) is helping on Kirby's Epic Yarn btw, specifically with game design.  Good Feel is doing all the actual art and programming and whatnot, no HAL in sight.

Pilotwings Resort coming from EAD2 would makes sense, as it seems to be reusing a lot from WSR (including even it's title) but until it's confirmed, I also wouldn't rule out EAD5 (which is led by original Pilotwings director Tadashi Sugiyama).  

Star Fox 64 3D was confirmed to be coming from Konno's team in an interview though (so EAD1, not EAD2).

Wii Party and Steel Diver I really have no clue on.  SPD3 doesn't do any real R&D though, they're purely oversight and coordination between NCL and external projects, so they probably shouldn't be listed at all.

Also, for 3rd party collabs you could list Engines Inc. with both Fire Emblem remakes.  IntSys is more co-developing the titles, sort of similar to how they work with SPD1 on Wario Ware and Card Hero, only the roles are reversed (IntSys doing design, Engines doing code).



I like Bacon on 18 June 2010

Why do you have Pokemon Gray under 2011? I'm pretty sure it'll come out in 2012 in Japan and 2013 everywhere else. Mario Kart 3DS should be 2011.

Great topic btw!



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MrT-Tar on 18 June 2010

well done, a great read.

 

NST have sure been quiet this generation, I want a new 1080!




puffy on 18 June 2010
trestres said:

Where did you get confirmation from all the games devs? Is there some speculation or are all of them official?

HAL is making Kirby with Good-Feel I think.
ND Cube isn't making Wii Party as far as I know.
We don't know who is making Wii Relax or PilotWings Resort.
SPD3 is really working on DKCR?


I still have to fix a few things but I can confirm ND Cube are the developers of Wii Party as they are listed as the dev on the Nintendo press site.

The others come from information from places like NeoGAF and also speculation.



 

puffy on 18 June 2010
jarrod said:

It was confirmed that Sakurai (ie: Project Sora) is helping on Kirby's Epic Yarn btw, specifically with game design.  Good Feel is doing all the actual art and programming and whatnot, no HAL in sight.

Pilotwings Resort coming from EAD2 would makes sense, as it seems to be reusing a lot from WSR (including even it's title) but until it's confirmed, I also wouldn't rule out EAD5 (which is led by original Pilotwings director Tadashi Sugiyama).  

Star Fox 64 3D was confirmed to be coming from Konno's team in an interview though (so EAD1, not EAD2).

Wii Party and Steel Diver I really have no clue on.  SPD3 doesn't do any real R&D though, they're purely oversight and coordination between NCL and external projects, so they probably shouldn't be listed at all.

Also, for 3rd party collabs you could list Engines Inc. with both Fire Emblem remakes.  IntSys is more co-developing the titles, sort of similar to how they work with SPD1 on Wario Ware and Card Hero, only the roles are reversed (IntSys doing design, Engines doing code).

Thank you :) All very good information and I'll get to adding/editing the OP

I have to ask where you got this info, would be helpful in the future!



 

jarrod on 18 June 2010
puffy said:
jarrod said:

It was confirmed that Sakurai (ie: Project Sora) is helping on Kirby's Epic Yarn btw, specifically with game design.  Good Feel is doing all the actual art and programming and whatnot, no HAL in sight.

Pilotwings Resort coming from EAD2 would makes sense, as it seems to be reusing a lot from WSR (including even it's title) but until it's confirmed, I also wouldn't rule out EAD5 (which is led by original Pilotwings director Tadashi Sugiyama).  

Star Fox 64 3D was confirmed to be coming from Konno's team in an interview though (so EAD1, not EAD2).

Wii Party and Steel Diver I really have no clue on.  SPD3 doesn't do any real R&D though, they're purely oversight and coordination between NCL and external projects, so they probably shouldn't be listed at all.

Also, for 3rd party collabs you could list Engines Inc. with both Fire Emblem remakes.  IntSys is more co-developing the titles, sort of similar to how they work with SPD1 on Wario Ware and Card Hero, only the roles are reversed (IntSys doing design, Engines doing code).

Thank you :) All very good information and I'll get to adding/editing the OP

I have to ask where you got this info, would be helpful in the future!

Konno's Star Fox 64 comment came from an IGN interview I think.  Sakurai doing design work on Kirby came from 1up, specifically a comment from Jeremy Parish I think.  Sorry I can't be more specific, but I've been looking at so much media the past few days, that's about as far as I can narrow it down (lol)!

The Engines stuff can be found via credit checking.  Actually, http://www.engines.co.jp/%22&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en">looking at their website it seems they've worked on a ton Nintendo games, even Kirby and Zelda!



Soleron on 19 June 2010

The list is very useful, thanks.

I'm guessing Intelligent Systems will do an Advance Wars or Fire Emblem 3DS, because they have a gap in their release cadence then. I'm hoping (futilely) it's a 2D Metroid for 3DS though, since they worked on Super Metroid, Fusion and Zero Mission. Worst case though, 3DS Metroid 'support' will consist of a Hunters sequel from NST.