Lord_Byron28
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Last E3, Nintendo unveiled Splatoon, Project Guard, Project Giant Robot, and Star Fox Wii U. A few months after E3 Miyamoto had an interview where he had this to say about those projects:
Splatoon when unveiled was a pretty realized game at that point meanwhile behind closed doors Miyamoto showed off the three prototypes that were in very early stages of development. We will see them at this year's E3 in a lot more developed state. However, I'm curious how many more projects they have in development and how far Nintendo is willing to go with these projects. Splatoon is a major project and has been shown through development and advertisement of the game but I couldn't see them transforming Project Guard or Giant Robot into full fledged games/ips.
With this E3 fast approaching, I wonder if we will see more of these Garage titles and what size projects we can expect to come out of them.
Splatoon and the three prototypes are the first games to emerge from Garage, a new Nintendo development programme set up last year in which developers break off into small teams and work on new ideas. There are increasing numbers of young staff at Nintendo's development studios these days, and these young guys really want to express themselves. Class time's over: they gather together and think about new projects completely apart from their everyday business assignments. When all of those projects have advanced to a certain stage, we gather together and exchange opinions on the outcome of each of them, and together we decide which ones should continue. We may have shown several software titles at E3 [that came from Garage], but there are many others in development too
Splatoon when unveiled was a pretty realized game at that point meanwhile behind closed doors Miyamoto showed off the three prototypes that were in very early stages of development. We will see them at this year's E3 in a lot more developed state. However, I'm curious how many more projects they have in development and how far Nintendo is willing to go with these projects. Splatoon is a major project and has been shown through development and advertisement of the game but I couldn't see them transforming Project Guard or Giant Robot into full fledged games/ips.
With this E3 fast approaching, I wonder if we will see more of these Garage titles and what size projects we can expect to come out of them.