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new Nintendo titles (Wario Land Shake, Rhythm Tengoku DS etc)
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Shikamaru Ninja
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Nintendo-owned developers:
Wario Land Shake and Rhythm Tengoku Gold falls under their department. Well technically the Wario Thief game came from SPD2 and Azuse.
As far as producing and co-developing games. Hitoshi Yamagami's group is one of the most games. Internally very few. I think Tetris DS and Mahjong DS are there only internal games i can confirm from them.
Nintendo doesn't have much announced. So yeah. Probably a couple of DS games being produced with independent or satellite developers. Kid Icarus no??
SPD4 is in charge of all the Training games and Wii Channels. English Training 2, Band Bros DX are all internal. Common Sense Training Wii (and DS), Beatiful Kanji Training (DS) are also games from SPD4 although those were co-developed.
Animal Crossing (or Mii Crossing) definitely. Wii Motorsports might be dead. And Wii Music might have been transplanted to Tadashi Sugiyama's EAD 5 group (responsible for Wii Fit).]
Zeldas im sure.
Big Brain Academy Wii Degree was their last game. Pikmin 3 and NSMB2 are two strong candidates for future games. Or maybe a Yoshi wii game.
Wii Music??
strong possibility that Nintendo's 20+ recruits hired for Smash Bros. Brawl will be coming over. Not only could this mean that the developer may finally have 2 solid teams. But next generation they may be the Smash Bros developer. Who knows.
They worked on Crossword DS but more from a design, music, and production unit
This one should be interesting. Whatever it is
Wario Land Shake and Rhythm Tengoku Gold falls under their department. Well technically the Wario Thief game came from SPD2 and Azuse.
As far as producing and co-developing games. Hitoshi Yamagami's group is one of the most games. Internally very few. I think Tetris DS and Mahjong DS are there only internal games i can confirm from them.
Nintendo doesn't have much announced. So yeah. Probably a couple of DS games being produced with independent or satellite developers. Kid Icarus no??
SPD4 is in charge of all the Training games and Wii Channels. English Training 2, Band Bros DX are all internal. Common Sense Training Wii (and DS), Beatiful Kanji Training (DS) are also games from SPD4 although those were co-developed.
Animal Crossing (or Mii Crossing) definitely. Wii Motorsports might be dead. And Wii Music might have been transplanted to Tadashi Sugiyama's EAD 5 group (responsible for Wii Fit).]
Zeldas im sure.
Big Brain Academy Wii Degree was their last game. Pikmin 3 and NSMB2 are two strong candidates for future games. Or maybe a Yoshi wii game.
Wii Music??
strong possibility that Nintendo's 20+ recruits hired for Smash Bros. Brawl will be coming over. Not only could this mean that the developer may finally have 2 solid teams. But next generation they may be the Smash Bros developer. Who knows.
They worked on Crossword DS but more from a design, music, and production unit
This one should be interesting. Whatever it is
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Ninja;
I would be inclined to agree that Wii Music was translated to EAD5. We know EAD2 is working on the Animal Crossing game to be released this year. I'd say it's likely that while EAD2 was doing the Wii Music tech demo that was shown at E3 '06, when they finally figured out what they were going to do with the game and locked it down for an 08 release it probably was transferred to EAD5.
I wonder if Nintendo would consider spinning off EAD Tokyo into a quasi-autonomous developer like IntSys. They're already in Tokyo and thus sort of separate in that way, and if they do take on more developers they'll have two large teams which is probably approaching the size of IntSys.
I would be inclined to agree that Wii Music was translated to EAD5. We know EAD2 is working on the Animal Crossing game to be released this year. I'd say it's likely that while EAD2 was doing the Wii Music tech demo that was shown at E3 '06, when they finally figured out what they were going to do with the game and locked it down for an 08 release it probably was transferred to EAD5.
I wonder if Nintendo would consider spinning off EAD Tokyo into a quasi-autonomous developer like IntSys. They're already in Tokyo and thus sort of separate in that way, and if they do take on more developers they'll have two large teams which is probably approaching the size of IntSys.
Stormbringer
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Well I can't see much more than what you guys are seeing, that's for sure. But most of the details I can distinguish from these tiny pics (like for example, visibly varied environments, classic Wario Land style and design, whacky and potentially pretty fun use of waggle, and also the simple fact that it's the return a freaking classic 2D plateformer on console,...) make me pretty excited for it. In fact, I just can't wait to have more infos and better screens of it, so I can more accurately judge this game. And while I hope there won't be any bad surprise, so far, I'm pretty damn optimistic, yeah.JSnake said:
Shikamaru Ninja
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Well in 2002 when Nintendo announced the new set of producers for EAD, Tadashi Sugiyama was one of those guys. However, as the EAD divisions became official, he was sort of floating around. So I'm not exactly sure of what was going on. Technically.
EAD1- Hideki Konno
EAD2- Katsuya Eguchi
EAD3- Eiji Aonuma
EAD4- Hiroyuki Kimura
EAD5- Tadashi Sugiyama
EAD Tokyo - Takao Shimizu
EAD Hardware - Takao Sawano (64DD, Wii Balance Board, Wii Zapper)
No. In all honesty the EAD name is very sacred to Miyamoto and even Iwata. I would not be surprised if in 5 years Nintendo also used their Umiya plant for a small EAD group as well. The EAD group is one of the most tight knit units in the industry. I can't really think of any major.. or even minor defections.. unlike R&D1...
jarrod said:
Agreed.
Now, the thing is, this game has to sell. If the game doesn't sell, then it's only the fault of the bashers, for not using their energy for a good cause: making sure people BUY this kind of stuff, so that Nintendo doesn't HAVE any excuse to not continue to do more like this.
This game, as well as Kirby Wii before the year is out? This could stand to be a very awesome time. I'd only need a new 2D Metroid for the Wii, as well as possibly a "New Super Mario Bros. 3" (DS or Wii), and then I'd be officially be NO GOOD.
splattergnome
Member
I don't know people are so surprised at Wario Land being a 2d platformer for the Wii. Unlike Mario, the Wario brand is not oversaturated - there has been on average one Warioware game per system (two for GBA), one Wario platformer per system (more for GB/GBC). And with a 2d game Nintendo can finally attract some of those millions who bought NSMB, Yoshi's Island 2, Kirby Squeak Squad - the type of gamer who still loves 2d games and potentially dislikes 2d games like Mario Galaxy. While one "oldschool" traditional game won't be a system seller, it will make the system more friendly to those who already have and like the DS and its library.
And it is not like Super Paper Mario with its hybrid gameplay had not been a big risk either...
And it is not like Super Paper Mario with its hybrid gameplay had not been a big risk either...
Infernal Monkey said:
Super Mario Galaxy also looks a bit like Wario Land 4.
Wow, big reactions to my comment. I'm not trying to condemn the game, it just looks to me like the game is going be something like Four Swords Adventures in terms of visuals.
Looking at the coins and background in the top right, the ladder in the sunset pictures, or the ground in any of them, it looks to me like the game is going to have a GBA-like visual style. Again, I'm not trying to condemn the game, it just looks like that to me from what's available. I still going to buy it day 1 regardless as long its being made by the same people who made Wario Land 3 and 4.
Also,
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I would say you can get a pretty good idea of what Mario Galaxy looks like from these scans.
From the scans, I still think Wario Land Shake looks very similar to Wario Land 4.
Pureauthor
Member
Are you allowed to post those? >_>
Edit: duckroll - quick on the draw
Edit: duckroll - quick on the draw
Pureauthor said:
Please don't ban me Duckroll, that scan is still visible in an old Gaf post:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7350786&postcount=1
I thought it was okay.
A Link to the Past
Banned
Now I just need New Super Mario World, Elite Beat Agents 2, and Metroid Dread.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Can we talk about Fatal Frame?
What does that boxart say, and is the game rated M? Looks cool.
What does that boxart say, and is the game rated M? Looks cool.
Souldriver
Member
Impossible. The game isn't called Imagine: Wario Land ShakezzDascu said:
TheOneGuy said:
I didn't find NSMB "ugly," but I know what you're saying. Hand-drawn, sprites, etc., are much prefered to the 2.5D stuff going on in NSMB, IMO.
Actually, my big beef with NSMB was that it just seemed too easy and straighforward (the levels especially). I hope Nintendo can make platforming interesting again with the Wario game and any other 2D platformers they plan on releasing in the future...