Legendary video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto says that the company is working on more spin-off titles to help improve the flow of Wii U software. He says that by doing this it allows customers to experience Nintendo franchises without having to wait three years for the next instalment. Miyamoto also said that they are working with a number of third-party developers to outsource their creations.
“On development time, we have already completed the step of learning new development techniques. So, we should experience less developmental delays stemming from learning new hardware. From now on, it becomes a matter of if we can use our experience efficiently and one part of our plan to do so is to use ‘spin off games’, which allow us to use our major title franchises, but create on a smaller scale and we are working hard on making these sort of derived products. In this way, we are preparing to expand on our characters while also increasing the number of software we output and allowing our customers to have their next experiences in certain franchises without waiting three years.”
“We are also working more and more with many different 3rd party companies to produce our titles [note: this seems to refer to outsourcing stuff like asset creation, cut-scenes, etc] and from this year we have begun to work with some software developers for the very first time. We are in the process of creating a system where we are actively seeking outside assistance to help us create an abundance of major titles. I feel that next year’s Wii U titles are plentiful. We will continue working hard.”
Thanks, gamerprince1999
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Wtf… You nintendrones talk about Nintendo being pure and never going 3rd party and only releasing great 1st party games with their IPs, yet you are okay with shitty third party crossovers? That is essentially the same thing. Prepare for the iconic Nintendo names to be smeared with shit as horrible games become the norm.
They should be more worried about the quality of their franchises
Bayonetta 10/10, Super mario 3D world 10/10. DKCTF 10/10 because of the music of David Wise, Hyrule Warriors 9/10 bt Famitsu.
The Quality is great, it is Nintendo supervised, always expect that.
F=ma.
Yeah, sure, and Bayonetta is a Nintendo franchise now
It’s second party, like Pokemon or Xenoblade
Actually no it isn’t. It’s 3rd party game that Nintendo paid for.
Xenoblade is first party. Nintendo owns Monolith.
Pokémon is published by Nintendo, licensed by Pokémon Company, developed by Game Freaks and Creatures.
Both are first party games.
I’d like to ask you where are you getting those reviews from? Only from places that give them the highest scores? Seems so to me. Don’t count DK TF and 3D World, those are 1st party games.
Bayonetta 2, 91%; Super Mario 3D World, 93%; DKC:TF, 84%; and Hyrule Warriors, 77%. This is from aggregate review site GameRankings.com . You can be honest and still make your point. Unfortunately, Hyrule Warriors is the only game that’s applicable here. Bayonetta 2 was published by Nintendo and developed by a 3rd party but is not a Nintendo franchise. The remaining two are merely 1st Party.
In fact, Other M and SSB4 would probably be better examples than the ones you provided.
I sure Nintendo will keep that in mind…
they should make a cross jrpg with xenoblade+mario/nintendo characters. like kingdom hearts.
I can see it now… Monolith Soft developing Nintendo’s take on the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Who’s gonna be the leading character… Pit? I like that concept., Rob.
For something like that, they should probably make some original characters as the protagonists and antagonists (with the addition of the obvious Nintendo characters) so that the game can be recognized as it’s own IP (or franchise if it does get popular enough).
They could do it with Golden Sun. The games have been kind of dormant. The last one was 2010.
It should totally be Pit. Pit x Pokemon Trainer is probably one of the cutest (but strangest) fan-fiction mangas I have ever read on the darker sides of the internet. Pit is also my favorite characters along with Lucina.
Monolith-soft doing Mario RPG 2…
Yes! I’m actually looking forward to these! btw… OMG MY NAME IS ON TV!!!!
So you’re Philip without s?
So E3 will make Nintendo fans money run away like summer steam sales do to pc gamers money great :-) what I need my money for.
I like the part of reaching out to third parties, as this might mean faster output! Hyrule Warriors was not of my liking, but as long as Nintendo is selling, I am glad, because it means they are sticking around.
Lol 3 years in between installments Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, and Kirby are all yearly series.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 was 2008. Super Mario 3D world was 2013. Please explain to me again why I should wait that long for greatness. Super Mario Galaxy alone is better than all games released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined.
Never said the good games came out yearly, just that they came out yearly lol
Okay lol! Pokemon comes out in long periods. It sells like crazy though. Now even Luigi is a 3 million game seller. A Luigi RPG on the WiiU staring him and Daisy would be a great hit.
F=ma.
A Luigi RPG… That is a fantastic idea, they gave Wario his own games, why not Luigi who is waaaaay better.
Or maybe something like Super Luigi Land in which it is like Super Mario Land but the role of Peach is Daisy, set in Sarasaland.
Cool idea, They should have done something like this for New Super Luigi U .
Daisy was already the damsel in distress in mario land.
North American release years:
Platinum —2009
HeartGold/SoulSilver — 2010
Black/White — 2011
Black2/White2 — 2012
X/Y — 2013
OmegaRuby/AlphaSapphire — 2014
Generation 7 2015 Q4…
Or Pokémon Z/Pokémon X2/Y2, which I think is more likely.
I haven’t played X and Y yet but I hope the next Pokemon game is a sequel to X and Y and not a better version of X and Y like how Platinum .
Personally I don’t think they’ll ever make Z, but perhaps X2/Y2…
But they already have a pokemon for Z, so I think a Z would be more in the works. I hated Black and White 2. XC
They already had a Pokemon (Kyurem) for Pokemon Grey, too, but we all know how that went.
Damn, didn’t even check the answers he got before replying myself.
You beat me to it. (:
Doesn’t pokemon get yearly installments now?
Based off of his adventure from the Thousand Year Door, that he would tell Mario about…
I ALWAYS wanted to see that! Yes! Go, Luigi! Find the pieces of the Marvelous Compass! Save Princess D̶a̶i̶s̶y̶ Eclair!
Nintendo, we just had an entire Year of Luigi! What a missed opportunity!
No, the main Pokemon series has been releasing annually too, for the most part. (I’ll assume you’re from the US, so I’ll list you the release dates for North America)
Red/Blue – September 1998
Yellow – October 1999
Gold/Silver – October 2000
Crystal – July 2001
Ruby/Sapphire – July 2003
Firered/Leafgreen – September 2004
Emerald – May 2005
Diamond/Pearl – April 2007
Platinum – March 2009
Heartgold/Soulsilver – March 2010
Black/White – March 2011
Black 2/White 2 – October 2012
X/Y – October 2013
Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – November 2014
Some releases are even less than a year apart from each other. And that’s for the main series only, there also are a bunch of spin-offs, like Mystery Dungeon or Ranger to give you examples, I didn’t take into account.
Wrong. Super Mario Galaxy 1 was in 2007, part 2 was in 2010.
Correction: Super Mario Galaxy 2 was 2010 (5/23/2010).
Kirby and Zelda aren’t yearly though…
Are you idiots this slow? Kirby and Zelda as annual series? lol Look up the dates of each games and come back and tell me if any of them are doing annual releases which they don’t, not even Mario Party.
MM-2000
Oos/ooa-2001
Fs-2002
WW-2003
Fsa-2004
Mc-2005
TP-2006
Ph-2007
WTF are these?
Zelda games, I suppose.
MM – Majora’s Mask
OoS / OoA – Oracle of Seasons / Oracle of Ages
WW – Wind Waker
FSA – Four Swords Adventures
MC – Minish Cap
TP – Twilight Princess
That’s my guess, at least.
Your mixing in handheld games with console games. We see a new console Zelda title once every 4-5 years. The reason for that is simply becouse thats how long they take to make. Quality is the key word here. Quality. Nintendo don’t reuse the same character models and animations like COD and AC. Thats the only reason those titles are annual. Becouse they reuse 80% of the in game content. The 20% thats changed is just window dressing to make the game ‘look’ different. Thats why I laugh anytime someone compares Nintendo I.P’s with Activision, or Ubisoft, or any of the other big 3rd party’s. It’s a joke. Those guys are not even in the same league as Nintendo. Not even on the same planet.
*claps enthusiastically* Thank you. I knew I couldn’t be the only one among logical folk who believes Nintendo games aren’t rehashes.
The fundamental difference between Call of Duty entries and, the infamous example, New Super Mario Bros. entries, is that platforming is almost infinitely more dynamic than running-and-gunning. A platformer is about it’s stages. The sky is the limit with the platform positions, enemies, other obstacles, goals, and jumping physics. Even a fairly forgettable stage is a different architecture, a different challenge to surmount. As a developer, you would have to put in the effort of recreating a near-verbatim, platform-by-platform, obstacle-by-obstacle copy of a previous iteration for it to be a rehash. By contrast, there is almost nothing to add to shooting, or at least Call of Duty’s brand of shooting. It’s very simple: you shoot each other with a small variance of weapons, using walls and the like to your advantage to get hit less.
Furthermore, considering how vehemently spoken the detractors are against Nintendo and it’s ‘rehashing’, if Nintendo’s work really is recycled and unoriginal, I wonder how these individuals begin to tolerate (let alone enjoy) the rest of the industry, or even the stage of advancement video games as a whole have reached. To put it in negative terms, nearly everything released from the big publishers to the AAA devs to the indie studios conforms in one way or another to a pre-existing genre. Even within that, Sony and Microsoft frequently encourage the same shooters and sports on their consoles. All this, and Nintendo is the one putting no effort into it’s work?
Except unlike the milked franchises of the others, these were on different consoles…
Homeconsoles:
OoT – 1997
MM – 2001
WW – 2003
TP – 2006
SS – 2011
So you see they are not annual releases for one console…
Sorry MM – 2000…
spin offs… not the same but I’ll bite, what they have in the making I’ll be keen to hear
F=ma.
Cool, I wouldn’t mind a sequel for Hyrule Warriors in 3-4 years and Sega SHOULD consider collaborating with Nintendo to make another F-Zero title.
Speaking of third party collaborations, where the fuck is Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem?
When CodeName Steam was announced at E3 2014 Hitoshi Yamagami said the development is going smoothly. Just go to the Wikipedia page.
The development of SMT X Fire Emeblem is going smoothly is what I meant.
I’ve seen the news, though it would be nice to at least see a new trailer soon or even know what demons will be involved in the crossover (Mara better have his/her phallic ass in the game since’s s/he’s my favorite).
Isn’t Nintendo the one that should consider working with Sega because Nintendo is the one that owns F-Zero? But they should do that. They should give the fans as much service as possible on Wii U, throw everything to the wall and see what sticks with people Nintendo!
Their biggest problem that still lingers is their lack of severe advertising…
If they improve that and hype it beyond reason then the games will sell…
would be cool to get more 3rd party companys doing weird things with nintendo like the hyrule warriors. may even get nintendo to start useing unused ip more…not sure i want crossovers with just the usual suspects of zelda mario and samus etc.
Watering down the quality to make more money. Makes me sad. RIP Nintendo.
Keep your primitive mouth shut fake Aeolus…
Yet reviews of Hyrule Warriors and the overall praise by fans says otherwise… just saying
That’s kinda what I read into that, too. I hope that isn’t what he meant. Although I wouldn’t mind so much if it meant seeing some long forgotten ips again. Smaller budgets don’t necessarily mean shittier games.
Yes! Letting the other nations use our weapons will give us more allies and strengthen our nation. And close instruction is key. We don’t want another incident like Philips CDi.
-Empire-
Now… Metal Gear Mario anyone?
lol, would be amazing but I Samus would fit this better, actually that’d be great a stealth Metroid game, could also add a bit of horror as well if they take some inspiration from Alien Isolation seeing as Metroid has all the aliens and that.
So this means SMT X FE is still a thing?
Yes, the developers did say that things were going smooth after Codename S.T.E.A.M.’s announcement at E3. I’m guessing that we probably might not see a new trailer until a NIntendo Direct next year.
i think there are a lot of talent in Nintendo but those talent cannot shine cause the game those developers want to make are games which are not aligned with the games Nintendo produce (or want to produce). If those talents work with 3rd party who have enough back bone to make some experimentations while taking calculated risk then I think it could work. Furthermore and that’s the reality of the world we live in, nintendo should produce an mobile phone game for the “idiot”/micro-transaction lover and casual gamer which should be successful and bring lot of millions to them. They have a development department for the mobile market.
3rd parties taking risks? since when?
Ok make a stealt/action game for sylux from metroid hunters and name it Shock Coil.
just dont touch Mario
I actually knew the success of hyrule warriors would make nintendo want to do more spinoffs
I don’t think it’s because of the success of Hyrule Warriors, but because of the failure of the Wii U’s launch that they started working with third parties.
Not even close. Wii U’s launch, at first, did great; 3+ million by Christmas which is a good start. After that, it all went straight to hell because the third parties keep making crap for Wii U or didn’t release enough games for 2 quarters straight.
I hope we’ll get Mushroom Warriors.
I don’t know about this, I didn’t like Hyrule Warriors.
It just felt like a empty shell of a game… shallow and bland.
I kind of feel bad for the team who worked on the title, it seemed like they really wanted to make a true Zelda game but Anouma pretty much said No. So its basically a Dynasty Warriors game. It’s made me less interested in a follow-up or playing the DW games.
As for future titles, I don’t know. I’d like to believe there will be some great games but really… I’m off two minds about it. Yes it would speed up development but the big N needs to give these developers some control to break new ground with their established franchises or forgotten ones for that matter.
In addition, Shigeru needs to be less stringent on the games that other developers are putting together for Nintendo. Has he forgotten the Star Fox Adventures debacle from the Gamecube era. He’s the one who changed a new IP into the Star Fox game that ended up being released. While it could have been great without the Andross crap at the end… it could have been equally cool as its own IP at the time.
As for Mario games, fix it or get a new lead producer. The guy running it has lost all sense of direction and inspiration.
Dynasty Warriors wanted to make a great DW and they did according to the team and many many fans. And automa gave them a ton of freedom and has said again and again a lot of the great ideas, including some that tie to Zelda strategy, game from tn
I’d love to see Nintendo partner with, or continue to partner with, more Japanese studios, i.e., Capcom, Square Enix, Konami, Sega, Namco Bandai, Tecmo Koei, etc. In fact, if Nintendo could secure some exclusive partnerships, that would make the Wii U one juggernaut of a console. It could be the console for people who love “Made in Japan” videogames, and it would finally merit some hardcore gamer cred.
Psh. As if third parties would work with Nintendo, the next Sega. jk
Only BS studios like EA and Ubisoft, maybe Activision too, I don’t mind they don’t even bother with Nintendo anymore because fuck them for what they did to Nintendo and also fuck them for making false promises and cheap scam stunts like stripping a game for DLCs.
More games like Hyrule Warriors and Pokken Fighters, great, can’t wait.
They’re always worried about the quality of their titles. They won’t release 1st party products that aren’t up to snuff, and should ensure that 3rd parties are bringing their A-game, even if they can’t match the quality of Nintendo’s own games.
Hmm…..if it’s like Other M, then maybe….but I don’t want more shit like Hyrule Warriors…
No. We don’t want another POS like Other M.
So they’re scrapping the WiiU and making a worthwhile console with reasonable power?
Oh, no? They’re not going to fix the actual problems they have with third parties? What a shock
the fact that the WiiU is selling better then the XBONE shows power rarely matter. the PS2, WII, DS and 3DS have all proved this. power isnt important, the games are. Sony ill admit has been amazing with their customers, and as such, people do support them. they are not going to ditch WIIU, you would be stupid to think they would.
No, the only place the WiiU is outselling the Bone is Japan. In the US, it usually triples the WiiU’s sales. It has sold about a million more, because it was released a full yrar ago.
And I don’t remember the Ps2 being so insanely underpowered that devs refused to work on it.
Mainly cause the power gap between the WiiU and the Ps4 is bigger than the gap between the Ps3 and the Wii.
how im the hell is the power gap between the PS4 and WiiU greater then the WII and PS3? the Wii wasnt even HD. the Xbone is still selling less tho. you admit that. the wii was greatly underpowered, so was the DS. still sold amazingly well. face it, games are the only thing that matters in the gaming community.
spin off games to untouched series like f zero custom robo etc sounds like a good idea
How about just more 3rd party games, regardless of whether they feature their franchise characters?
I hope he does bring more support but as for lying and conniving motherfuckers like Ubishit and EA, screw them.
Retro Studio is good making DK games but they should start making Metroid Prime games.
They should’ve try out Star Fox instead. Maybe take Assault’s concept and make it tons better.
They can try but I hear the new Star Fox is in making process.
Duh. I’m just saying that if its not DK or Metroid, Retro should’ve tried out Star Fox or revive their Raven Blade IP idea that got cancelled because of Metroid Prime.
God I hope Nintendo never gives thier I.P.’s to Ubisoft. In fact, I’m not sure this is such a good idea. Why not let 3rd parties create thier own games, and keep Nintendo I.P.’s where they belong. I mean, am I the only one the thought Hyrule Warriors was extremely medicore? I think the risk is too great to dampen the quality that comes along with Nintendo I.P.’s.
Nintendo would never give their I.P.’s to Ubisoft.
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They need 3dr parties but also more persons in their company.
I wonder who are the ones that are making the new Star Fox?
Spin-off series of F-Zero and Fire Emblem please. (But let’s have a true F-Zero revival first) Both leaving their respective genre would be amazing!
After playing and enjoying Hyrule Warriors, I look forward to more spin-offs.
Hyrule Warriors was an instance where the fan service was great, but the game just didn’t play like a Nintendo title. Ninty got help from Namco on Smash, and so I’m sure Pokken will be a tighter experience.
Seems to me, if you are a Zelda fan who liked/would have liked Warriors titles before playing HW, you got a trashy treat and a TON of Zelda content out of the deal. The rest of us, who are either bored or outright unimpressed by the signature Warriors franchise gameplay, are stuck with the option of grinding through hours of repititive play for tasty Zelda morsels along the way, or simply dropping the title altogether in favor of WW HD as a better appetizer for 2015.
The third and best option, of course, is to completely delve into all that Bayonetta 2 has to offer. The first run through merely wet my whistle for more, and Platinum isn’t even pushing DLC on us right out of the gate ;P
I played the demo of Bayonetta 2 and didn’t care for it. So I decided not to buy it (until it’s in a bargain bin some day).
Bayonetta 2 is just simply amazing. I finished the first one and started on the second. Game of the year so far in my opinion. And yes, thats including MK 8. Bayonetta is just an amazing experience. I’m in agreement about Hyrule Warriors. I never cared for the Dynasty Warriors franchise. I tried, it was just really boring and repetitive. I knew I wouldn’t care for Hyrule Warriors unfortunatly. I wanted to like that game so bad. To give it credit though, it was actually miles better than any other Dynasty game. But it was just that, a Dynasty game. It actually blows my mind it sold better than Bayonetta 2. I hope there is no sequel. I really am protective of the Zelda Franchise, and I don’t want to see this spin off continue.
What are you smoking? Hyrule Warriors is awesome! I just wish the Legend Mode was longer, and that there was more playable characters. I don’t like the exclusive characters Lana, Cia and Volga.
But there’s nobody I hate more than Zant. He was always such a retarded looking character.
Metroid by Platinum Games, Mario by American McGee.
Sounds cool but while we’re on the topic of crossovers…
Are we getting news for Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem anytime before say, 2016?
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I look forward to more crossover games. Anyway, when we can expect Hyrule Warriors 2? I really enjoy hack & slash games. But next time, make the story mode longer, guys. It sucks that most of the content is in a side mode. I would have gladly done without Adventure Mode if it meant a much longer story.
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