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Nintendo Dev Roundtable - Pikmin Wii was intended to release 2011, moved to Wii U

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Shikamaru Ninja

任天堂 の 忍者
Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto will be scheduling interviews and developer round tables featuring their following producer and team managers:

Mr. Hideki Konno
Manager / Producer of Software Development Group No. 1
EAD Software Development Department
Entertainment Analysis & Development Division
Nintendo Co., Ltd
To talk about Mario Kart 3D

Mr. Katsuya Eguchi
Manager/Producer of Software Development Group No. 2
EAD Software Development Department
Entertainment Analysis & Development Division
Nintendo Co., Ltd
To talk about Animal Crossing 3D (Star Fox 64 3D?)

Mr. Eiji Aonuma
Manager/Producer of Software Development Group No. 3
EAD Software Development Department
Entertainment Analysis & Development Division
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
To talk about his games, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and The Legend of Zelda Skyward Swords

Mr. Yoshiaki Koizumi
Manager / Producer of Tokyo Software Development Group No. 2
EAD Tokyo Software Development Department
Entertainment Analysis & Development Division
Nintendo Co., Ltd
To talk about his games; Super Mario 3DS

Mr. Masahiro Sakurai
Director of the Board
Project Sora Co., Ltd.
To talk about Kid Icarus. [and maybe Smash Bros. 4 wishes]

Takashi Tezuka who was live during the press conference is not listed as one of the press contacts. Some notables like Takao Shimizu (EAD Tokyo Group No.1) and Hiroyuki Kimura (New Super Mario Bros. and Pikmin) are absent from this years show.

Several interviews are scheduled, including the first of two developer round tables tonight. Most likely some new game details and a game or two being confirmed.


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Developer Round Table #1 Summary
+ Miyamoto says Retro Studios providing support in designing one 3D course for Mario Kart. DKCR assets for the jungle levels?
+ Aonuma says boss sword fights are exciting in Skyward Swords
+ Super Mario 3DS still a working title. Final name will be decided later.
+ Lots of exploration in Skyward Swords. Sword will help you find items.
+ Flying through the air and swordplay are big elements of Skyward Swords
+ Aonuma promises that environments outside of dungeons,. will be just as intersting.
+ Koizumi wanted to create the most "mario" 3d game ever in Super Mario 3DS
+ Koizumi considered tempo and excitement vastly into the teams design of Mario 3D
+ Koizumi and team decided to bring back tanooki suit and traditional flags over stars.
+ Super Mario 3DS levels are shorter.
+ Super Mario 3DS has a zelda style dungeon level in honor of 25th anniversary.
+ Luigi's Mansion 2 very far in development. But Nintendo may opt to release it early 2012
+ Luigi's Mansion 2 being developed by Next Level Games in Canada. The Punch Out team.
+ Miyamoto taking lots of responsibility for Luigis Mansion 2
+ Takashi Tezuka takes stage to explain origins of Tanooki Suit
+ Miyamoto says his team is working very hard on Star Fox 64. People better buy it!
+ Wii Vitality Sensor (Wii Relax?) still being worked on at Nintendo
+ Piikmin WiiU Confirmed
+ Nintendo is working on WiiU games. (We've seen them). But the corporate line is not to announce it officially yet. But Miyamoto wanted to at least announce Pikmin himself.
 
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Game-Biz

Member
Shikamaru Ninja said:
Mr. Masahiro Sakurai
Director of the Board
Project Sora Co., Ltd.
To talk about Kid Icarus. [and maybe Smash Bros. 4 wishes]
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S

Skiesofwonder

Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
I've been hearing that tomorrow's round table is third party focused. Anybody want to confirm that?
 
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GregLombardi

Member
Guardian Bob said:
People give Sakurai too much credit. Brawl SUCKED!
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Its online sucked, therefore making it a far less relevant game. The tripping sucked too. Oh, and the smash balls. Thank god you could turn them off.

But the game, overall, was a great game.
 
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Duderz

Banned
Sakuurrrraaaaaiiiii

Going to be a long wait for the next Smash Bros. :)

EDIT: Chris Remo, you know what you must do.
 
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bgassassin

Member
Bisnic said:
So when is this round table going to happen and is there any link to watch it?
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Someone posted the times in one of the other threads, but it's either 6:30 or 7:30 CST. I want to say it was 7:30 CST though.

EDIT: What Truth said.
 
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antonz

Member
daCuk said:
Hoping there are details of something from Konami, Capcom, Activision for WiiU....
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3rd party is rumored to be the topic of roundtable tommorrow though the way Reggie has stated things who knows. He says we will know Wii U online plans before this week is over so Nintendo is obviously not done talking
 
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Prez

Member
antonz said:
3rd party is rumored to be the topic of roundtable tommorrow though the way Reggie has stated things who knows. He says we will know Wii U online plans before this week is over so Nintendo is obviously not done talking
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Then I guess I'm off to bed now..
 
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lazybones18

Banned
GregLombardi said:
Its online sucked, therefore making it a far less relevant game. The tripping sucked too. Oh, and the smash balls. Thank god you could turn them off.

But the game, overall, was a great game.
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Main single player mode (Subspace emissary) sucked as well. Can't forget about that
 
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