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What was once posited to be the beacon of Nintendo's first-party development in the US, has continued its trend of turnovers as Stephen Mortimer (lead designer) and Paul Kranich have both departed from the Redmond based in-house development group. Just months previously, Hirokazu Yasuhara (famous from Sonic Team) also departed from the development studio, after pretty much accomplishing nothing.
The developer was at a high point with nearly a 100 personnel recruited from their Digipen affiliated university and talent from Nintendo of Japan and other high profile companies. Unfortunately as the budgets grew and the Japanese production staff clashed, things stopped progressing (Project Hammer), and the big name developers started leaving. Since then they've been stuck in development hell, and have experienced consistent turnover with their employees.
Nintendo is currently hiring designers and programmers for their NST group. Hopefully not for another freeware Amiibo game.
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The developer was at a high point with nearly a 100 personnel recruited from their Digipen affiliated university and talent from Nintendo of Japan and other high profile companies. Unfortunately as the budgets grew and the Japanese production staff clashed, things stopped progressing (Project Hammer), and the big name developers started leaving. Since then they've been stuck in development hell, and have experienced consistent turnover with their employees.
Nintendo is currently hiring designers and programmers for their NST group. Hopefully not for another freeware Amiibo game.
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