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Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has been in development since 2017

Nintendo has confirmed in a recent developer interview that Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has been in development for the Nintendo Switch since 2017, which is when the Nintendo Switch made its worldwide debut. They started work on the new game after development had “settled down” on the charming mobile game, Miitomo. The idea of a sequel to the original Tomodachi Life game on the Nintendo Switch came about when Mr. Sakamoto- said “There’s so much that I want my Mii characters to experience, but there’s nothing more that I can do for them.” They then decided to pursue the idea of Tomodachi Life Living the Dream on the newer Nintendo Switch hardware. You can read our review of the new game here.

So, what sparked development of this all-new Tomodachi Life game?

Takahashi: I believe development started around 2017, after things had settled down on Miitomo. The producer, Sakamoto-sa, and I both have a special attachment to Tomodachi Life and have been playing the previous game on Nintendo 3DS for many years. But we’d already squeezed all we could out of that game, and Sakamoto-san said to me sadly, “There’s so much that I want my Mii characters to experience, but there’s nothing more that I can do for them.” (Laughs) So, we talked about our desire to create a new Tomodachi Life game.

21 thoughts on “Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has been in development since 2017”

  1. Man I LOVED Miitomo, to the point that I had a modded version after their closure so I could keep play it. The photo maker was very cool, I had a gallery full of dumb photos with my mii, can’t wait to fill my sd card again with living the dream, me and my friends fell in love just with the demo

  2. Wow I thought Nintendo consolidated all their devs to one platform.. MK World apparently took 8 years to make as well and it doesn’t even have a basic campaign mode which DKR devs made on the 64 in just a couple of years.

    These super long development times on a low end console is embarrassing for Nintendo given the lack of content sometimes.

    1. Look, I love DKR but let’s not pretend it had some special story mode. It was just races. It was basically Grand Prix but one race at a time. The only thing DKR has that MKW doesn’t is boss races… in which case I think MKDS is a better game to compare it to than DKR.

  3. Don’t speak facts on this website you’ll get censored. Just like the baby eating p3dos in the Epstein files want!

      1. Ya just censor anything you don’t understand commie. I’m guessing you bought this game and picked non binary?

        1. Even better than non binary. I picked gay, so the mii would be like me and made everyone on my island gay. Everything and everyone is gay 😃 it’s fantastic. I bet you are jealous I’m out, but you are in the closet afraid of non binary folks. You can do it! One step at a time out of the closet. I’ll hold your hand the entire time ❤️

          1. You dont get it. Be gay all you want. I don’t give af. Believe you’re a unicorn. Go wild. But when it says in the Epstein files, they are using this non binary gender fluid crap to indoctrinate kids. Yes. P3dos want to f with kids so they pushed the agenda at them so hard. Whether Nintendos aware I don’t know. They’ve held out pretty good against this “5 year olds dont know what gender they are so let’s really confuse them” propaganda. You’re an adult do whatever you want. But leave the f kids alone. Got a problem with me wanting to protect kids from Epstein P3dos agendas? Are you a groomer too. I hope you just learned something.

                1. I actually did, it has nothing to do with gay and trans people. You’re just assuming they are bad people when they are not! They are just normal human beings with a life, they don’t affect you, so don’t fight it! It’s better to be inclusive rather then to discriminate.

                  1. C’mon, Frostie. You must know it’s the same person from the other day. I’d imagine Jordi and levigi are actually the same person.

                    1. This jordi sounds smart and awake and not a brainwashed NPC but knows what’s really going on! The covid PLANdemic woke millions up, but apparently not enough.

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