Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has explained to Japanese magazine Famitsu that video game development will become even longer, more complex, and more sophisticated in the future and that mergers and acquisitions could be one way to address this. Nintendo isn’t the only company to say that video game development is becoming longer, more costly, and more complex, with both Sony and Xbox echoing this statement in the past.
“He also stated that he believes that further lengthening, complexity, and sophistication of game development is inevitable in the future, and that M&A is one possible means to address this, but added, “First of all, we would like to develop human resources who understand Nintendo’s brand well within the company and who will be responsible for Nintendo’s future development, along with developers who have built our brand over the years. However, the company’s basic policy is to “first of all, understand the Nintendo brand well within the company, and develop human resources who will be responsible for the future development of Nintendo, together with developers who have built the brand over the years.”
In short, they will expand and entrust IPs to third-party developers
It says the exact opposite
Yeah had to google it initially, but M&A stands for mergers and acquisitions.
4K visuals confirmed
Not necessarily… considering many PS5/SeriesX games don’t run in 4K, I wouldn’t count on it for Switch 2. I could at least see them adding in the CAPABILITY of outputting in 4K… but don’t count on any of their first party games hitting that.
Let’s not forget that many Switch games struggle with performance even at 720p at times (Bowser’s Fury and Princess Peach Showtime). I’d honestly just hope for 900p in the worst case scenario, and 1080p as a general standard with greater visual fidelity WHILE maintaining solid 60fps.
Personally I care more about being able to load the areas faster and having more console memory to keep more general environments in memory longer.
Yeah I know. It was just a tongue in cheek joke. I’d be perfectly fine with a stable 1080p or 1440p with 60fps; I really don’t care about 4K at all if I’m being honest
Oh yeah, and faster load times too. That was one of the Switch’s main selling points in the beginning, so I would be pretty bummed if that was removed (faster boot ups compared to Wii U games anyway)
What I gather from this statement is “we will probably acquire some devs in the future, but we want to make sure that we have systems in place that ensures those new devs follow our philosophies”
Translation, the third party IPs and game development is going to be much expensive as we thought depending on the system performance since it’s going to be longer.
Nintendo be eyeing up some studios by the looks of things…. not gonna say which ones they should buy up Cough Platinum Games Cough Sumo Digital Cough oh dear, these allergies are getting worse
I think they’re probably looking at smaller studios who are more familiarized with Nintendo IPs, such as Good Feel, Camelot, MercurySteam and Grezzo.
Wouldn’t that be nice
I just hope that Nintendo doesn’t get so lost in trying to make things more Grand and sophisticated that they lose sight of what made us love their games in the first place
Unlike the comment below you, I wholeheartedly agree with your take.
Thanks
I think their point is that technology making it that way not that they are going in that direction. They have to move forward and advance with tech to keep up. They know their IP’s don’t need to be the biggest or flashiest. Hell, I still play all the older systems and regardless of what anyone says about the WiiU it is an awesome system, I prefer my nes and snes though.
If you read what he says “video game development will become even longer, more complex, and more sophisticated in the future”.
Well duh! This has always been the way, and Nintendo are always a generation behind the curve since the Wii on. He’s not saying Nintendo are at the cutting edge of technology. We’ll be extremely lucky if the Switch 2 is on par with the PS4 Pro in terms of specs. PS4 games weren’t $70, so there’s no excuse if Nintendo try to pull that stunt.
Plus Furukawa says “He also stated that he believes that further lengthening, complexity, and sophistication of game development is inevitable in the future, and that M&A is one possible means to address this.”
That could potentially mean that Nintendo don’t have the talent internally for these complex, sophisticated games as they’re always behind the curve and may have to look to external developers who do have this talent.
I fully believe that Nintendo is THE company to best plan their next-gen development times accordingly. They truly are one of the last video game companies to put quality over quantity and know how to properly allocate time and resources towards game development. I am not worried for Nintendo. In fact, other companies should take note.