Looks like another interview was posted on the site. EDIT: Animal Crossing: New Horizons was also added to the games page.
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Monolith Soft Development Pipeline & Speculation Thread
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The browser translater gets 99% of it, and its not a very long piece, so i'd just use that.
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You have to read between the lines, but I'm pretty sure it's actually a stealth Dizastuh sequel announcement.
In my dreams :(
I want a third Endless Frontier. or Project X Zone 3
or hell, make a Project Smash Zone starring all Nintendo characters
make it a gacha mobile game
I just noticed the 4 employees bump from March, I got used to checking after a looong time so I didn't even bother since the last update was in February. the new art is gorgeous. I wonder if we'll see a significant increase in staff following New Horizons' massive success, although their involvement wasn't on the same level as BotW this game is also going to outsell BotW. Exciting times.
They've been seeing significant increase in staff since BotW. I don't see the impact of Animal Crossing changing their staff increase since it's growing at a great pace already
External games like AC are contract based, so Monolith already got payed their piece before launch and probably wont recieve milestone bonuses.
Not sure how the setup for BOTW2 might work though, if half the devs are from MSI like with the DLC there might be additional rewards.
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As of today, it has been 32 months since the start of Monolith Soft's ambitious project. However, the planning phase existed several months prior to the large-scale recruitment, meaning it has existed for at least 40 months.
For the sake of comparison, the entire development cycle (spanning from the conception phase to release) for previous recent games are as follows:
Xenoblade Chronicles: ~48 months
Xenoblade Chronicles X: ~58 months
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: ~42 months + 9 months for Torna/DLC
If the new IP still exists to this day, we could get a formal reveal relatively soon. If it has a development cycle as long as Xenoblade X (unlikely since that game was their first HD developed game), it will release roughly around October 2021. I personally believe it will be released no later than June 2021. The conception phase likely started a little earlier than December 2016. Takahashi must have had some ideas about it at the time, at least enough for him to point out the coincidental timing of Atlus' announcement of Project Re Fantasy.
For the sake of comparison, the entire development cycle (spanning from the conception phase to release) for previous recent games are as follows:
Xenoblade Chronicles: ~48 months
Xenoblade Chronicles X: ~58 months
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: ~42 months + 9 months for Torna/DLC
If the new IP still exists to this day, we could get a formal reveal relatively soon. If it has a development cycle as long as Xenoblade X (unlikely since that game was their first HD developed game), it will release roughly around October 2021. I personally believe it will be released no later than June 2021. The conception phase likely started a little earlier than December 2016. Takahashi must have had some ideas about it at the time, at least enough for him to point out the coincidental timing of Atlus' announcement of Project Re Fantasy.
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I wouldn't rule out a late 2020 reveal though, even with the current pandemic situation.
I believe that was just a recruitment and has nothing to do with a new IP. The next thing we should see internally is a new Xenoblade
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I'm just going to say that they (THAT person) don't know everything that goes on behind the scenes. That's all...
Be optimistic, Dark Cloud!
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Omg you know how much hype I had when they updated their website years ago with those new concept art?
I was ecstatic to think Monolith Soft was making a brand new IP in some medieval fantasy setting. I really want a brand new IP from them. They shouldn't be stuck to making Xenoblade. They need to GROW, Nintendo! Look how CDPR has Witcher 3 as their big series and now a brand new IP in Cyberpunk. Monolith should be growing like that
I was ecstatic to think Monolith Soft was making a brand new IP in some medieval fantasy setting. I really want a brand new IP from them. They shouldn't be stuck to making Xenoblade. They need to GROW, Nintendo! Look how CDPR has Witcher 3 as their big series and now a brand new IP in Cyberpunk. Monolith should be growing like that
If they have something new coming I didn't think we'd see it until this years September direct the earliest. With all the Covid 19 who knows anymore
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I love Xenoblade, but there isn't much they can do to grow the series' popularity. I think they can create something with even more appeal. There's a reason why they have been gaining a lot of new blood over the last few years. Nintendo realizes MS's potential and will help guide them into a new age.
Totally agree with this. I think that outside of drastically retooling Xenoblade, their future and big success is away from the series (sadly).
It's not like it's a bad thing, but it's true. Xenoblade is reaching its ceiling. They're not going to make this forever. I'd like a new IP that has greater appeal, especially from the gameplay standpoint. Xenoblade's combat, and even UI on screen, isn't the most inviting to bring new audiences in.
Nah the series has been growing in popularity at a much faster rate than Fire Emblem, it's not done yet
Oh man, don't give me hope like that. I love Xenoblade so much but seeing that medieval concept art years ago made me so hype.
I'd add that I think they can retool the series. Keep the giant, imaginative worlds, crazy plots, etc. While shifting to more mainstream mechanics.
I don't get the fire emblem comparison. Wow Fire Emblem isn't the only series to grow on Switch. Plus it added a castle to walk around. That's a huge reason for people like me to get it.
Xenoblade is already a big sprawling world. Takahashi isn't going to change the battle system like Fire Emblem didn't do to appeal to more people
Xenoblade is already a big sprawling world. Takahashi isn't going to change the battle system like Fire Emblem didn't do to appeal to more people
I like the idea of Xenoblade but I don't like the weird combat system
I'd be completely on-board for a new IP with pure-turn-based or pure-real-time combat instead of the strange hybrid system
I'd be completely on-board for a new IP with pure-turn-based or pure-real-time combat instead of the strange hybrid system
It's not. It's literally its own section while Xenoblade has its own section on the website. The medieval game also said it's something different from Monolith's brand image. If it's a game it's not under the Xenoblade name
I'm sure it's their attempt at a true open-world epic à la Skyrim, Witcher 3, and BotW. It's going to be glorious.
In an interview in 2012 they said they wanted to be like Bethesda.
Monolith Soft: We Want To Be Like Bethesda
Xenoblade Chronicles developer has big ambitions
www.nintendolife.com
We got Xenoblade Chronicles X, which is great. I believe that type of open game has a chance of bigger appeal, but that combat and I think characters holds it back imo.
Skitzzo has said something similar. He's a big Nintendo fan too, but that combat is a turn off to him. The UI he mentioned too and he loves JRPG's like Dragon Quest
Doesn't that make sense? I thought they were hiring for the medieval "game" like a year before the next Xenoblade recruitment
yes, ans I still think it's coming. though there were some people claiming some guy who knew about Monolith was saying such a game didn't exist
don't remember but it was in one of these monolith soft threads. never seemed plausible to me as I think it was implied this person was western
It was a guy on twitter who said he knows some people at Monolith and said there is new no IP from the medieval concept art. He said he was told by some Monolith employees that's just recruiting advertisement.
The reason he came off as reliable is because he posted original work Monolith Soft had for Xenoblade that's never been released in public. Funny thing is he posted Xenoblade Chronicles X storyboard work on twitter to show how Monolith had an original main protagonist for XCX and Elma today.