ARMS producer Kosuke Yabuki recently participated in a panel at this week’s ongoing GDC 2018 event. He explained that very few of the company’s prototypes actually turned into commercial products by the Kyoto-based company. He said that Nintendo looks for game ideas that have changed from existing trends and fashions.
“Very few of the prototypes that the R&D teams design at Nintendo blossom into commercial games,” Yabuki said. This is because Nintendo expressly looks for game ideas that deviate from existing game styles and fashions.”
This is why we don’t get new IPs