Yeah, I agree. My thought was that, at this point, they'd have a new 2D Mario / Super Mario Maker ready as enough time has passed since the last one so I'm kind of skeptical of the rumour
"I know how hated the character of Tingle is in the U.S," Tanabe started. "I know that people cannot stand Tingle. But to me that challenge is: Could I take this character that is so reviled in the West and just [do] a complete turnaround and make him a beloved, fun character? The idea of that really just gets me going. I know we have made a Tingle game in the past, but maybe at some point down the road. …"
"Retro does Tingle!" Kelbaugh added, playing along with the joke. Another round of laughter swept through our little room.
Sounds pretty bad...Yeah. This year is getting a bit crowded with 2D side-scrolling platformers.
Since everyone is on the topic of Metroid Prime...
Speculation: How would you feel if Nintendo released Metroid Prime Trilogy HD on Switch this year, and then released Metroid Prime 4 in 2019?
Do you think that would be a smart idea? Do you like that idea?
I bring this up because Sony released Uncharted Collection in 2015, and then they released Uncharted 4 in 2016.
Yoshi with Labo support.Sadly none of there is out there, they all sound like really conventional platformers.
Based on what we know, it had a troubled development. I think it would not be surprising if it was expected to be out much sooner.
I'd buy it. Switch is an exclusives only machine as PS4 is my main console. And I've never played the MP series, so if they made a compilation with great upports if all three, I'd buy it. If they halfassedly put cheap ports on their store for $40-$60 a pop I would skip it.
? It started development mid 2015 and was finished mid 2017... Development obviously went great.
They had cheap Wii ports on Wii U and it was like £20 for the whole trilogy. They would never sell them separately for full price. But i agree, we need a we'll done HD trilogy instead of just those again
There will be a thread. I'm not sure about what time, but give it around 12 hours I guess.How many hours til the financial briefing? Will we have a thread?
I have no idea when it started development, there doesn't seem to be any articles anywhere giving the date. In any case, the initial rumors about the game before it was officially announced had said it had been in development hell for some period of time. Possible that wasn't accurate but who knows.
It's a question the development team struggled with when they started working on the game two years ago.
How many hours til the financial briefing? Will we have a thread?
There is no corporate management policy briefing this year, but they are releasing financials this evening. Anything can change, though.
Sakamoto and like two other people were working on a modded version of Metroid Fusion that they called "Metroid Dread" for a while and Mercury Steam got their pitch for Metroid Prime 4 declined if those are development hell stuff but I don't know.
Mercury Steam's pitches for 2D Metroids were also all brutally declined until Nintendo themselves asked if they wanted to make Samus Returns so that could feel like hell I suppose.
https://youtu.be/yoV5SbM_V8M?t=3m16s
I thought they always did the briefing the day following the financial release. I do not recall any quarter in Nintendo's modern history as a public company where they did not hold briefing.
Man you're taking the easy way out by putting "2018/2019" for so many games lol.IDK. I have a hard time believing Retro misses this year too, at least by much (i.e. after this coming e3, before the next).
In general, specific new things that I think will come in 2018/2019:
-Kirby 2018
-Labo 1&2 2018
-Hypothetical Labo 3&4 2018/2019
-Yoshi 2018
-FE 2018
-Metroid Prime 4 2018/2019
-Pokemon 2018/2019
-Pikmin 4 2018/2019
-AC 2018/2019
-2D Mario/Mario Maker 2018/2019
-Retro 2018/2019
Smash is up-in-the-air imo, as to how "new" it will be, but I also think it will show up in the next two years.
Same.I mean...I'm not trying to be bold....
I also think that it'll be an assortment of those titles that hit 2018, but not that any one unannounced/dated title has to be 2018.
Didn't know where to ask this.....
Has there been any talk of the Nintendo Q3 Earnings Release tomorrow? We sometimes get pretty interesting tidbits from these meetings.
I'll be followingOnce again, if you guys are looking for coverage of Nintendo's financials, follow @Gibbogame and @Mochi_WSJ on Twitter, Nintendo typically releases results during the morning and their translations are the best around.
There has been.
It's happening within the next 6-7 hours. The briefing is usually 24 hours after.
Just another Tuesday.2D platformer meltdowns again?
Y'all need to chill, especially when NSMBU is on the basis of a flimsy rumor.
2D platformer meltdowns again?
Y'all need to chill, especially when NSMBU is on the basis of a flimsy rumor.
Yeah, 100% don't think there's going to be new music in the TF port"David Wise is totally just composing new Funky music" should not be the hill people die on in arguing Retro is making "new IP," aka "anything but DK."
None of the other selectable Kongs have unique in-game music, even when doing character-specific power-ups, and Retro/Monster didn't add new music to the extra world's levels in Returns 3DS (and new levels are far from guaranteed in this port).
It's a different breed of bad argument than "too many platformers" in that it's not based entirely on personal preference, but rather is improbable based on series precedent.
The only people dumb enough to believe that are ones who have deluded themselves into believing that the Tropical Freeze port is the only DK game we're getting this generation. In other words, wishful thinking on their behalf. Retro Studios is not going to fly David Wise across the Atlantic so he can compose a few songs for a port. He only visited Retro once during Tropical Freeze's development."David Wise is totally just composing new Funky music" should not be the hill people die on in arguing Retro is making "new IP," aka "anything but DK."
None of the other selectable Kongs have unique in-game music, even when doing character-specific power-ups, and Retro/Monster didn't add new music to the extra world's levels in Returns 3DS (and new levels are far from guaranteed in this port).
It's a different breed of bad argument than "too many platformers" in that it's not based entirely on personal preference, but rather is improbable based on series precedent.
I highly doubt that they'll be publishing anywhere near that many games going forward.Also, someone earlier in this thread said Nintendo publishes around 22 games a year and so far they've only announced 7 published games this year.
You know...I had a thought.
What if Retro's new game......was TINGLE?
Now, before you all throw tomatoes at me, there's actually something to base this off of. Back in 2013, there wasn an interview with Tanabe, where he dicussed how he'd like to make a new Tingle game, to make the character more popular and accepted by the western audience.
https://venturebeat.com/2013/06/17/kensuke-tanabe-metroid-tingle/
And then, soon afterwards, Michael Kelbaugh joked that Retro would make a new Tingle.
But...what if he wasn't joking after all, and it was actually a hint towards Retro's next project?
no i don't think any of this shit is gonna happen lol. could you imagine...
Article from June 2017:
Not sure where you got the "development hell" rumours from but if I remember correctly, it took a while to get the project off the ground. Development itself probably went as expected.
For some reason no one has stated an actual time but it should be in a few hours
I highly doubt that they'll be publishing anywhere near that many games going forward.
The main reason they were able to publish ~20 games per year is because handheld development was comparatively much cheaper and faster than making console games. That's not the case anymore: Switch games require the budget and development time of console titles. We should get games more frequently than Nintendo's previous home consoles, but even 12 per year is optimistic imo.
Plus, even if they were able to pump out multiple games per month...would they want to? All that would do is make them compete against themselves for sales, and Nintendo has a history of spacing out their titles to avoid that kind of thing. Tropical Freeze was delayed a few months to avoid going up against Super Mario 3D World, for example. I think it would also screw over third party games, because they'd constantly be having to compete against a barrage of Nintendo games. So again, I really can't see more than one game coming per month, outside of maybe Labo sets since they generally won't be selling to the same people.
We probably will start to see more smaller downloadable games like Snipperclips though.