He's the producer, basically like Miyamoto used to be. Would've been credited as General Producer probably, if EPD Tokyo did normal credits. Normal "producer" producer is Hayashida. Basically 3D Mario is Koizumi's baby now so he's in a more senior position (overseeing/managing all EPD Tokyo stuff) but puts an extra focus on being involved in 3D Mario still. Again, like Miyamoto used to do for the majority of the last two decades.
speaking of NST, I've been following Nintendo's Jobs twitter account for a long while now, and I've noticed they always have hirings. usually for stuff like technical artists and whatnot. makes we wonder just what are they working on. I'd assume it's an assisting position for a game (maybe Retro's?) since they're always technical stuff and even the occasional lead designer
they've been hiring a lot of technical artists and lead designers for such a game. whatever they're doing just sounds a lot bigger than mere MvsDK
They've done a fair bit non M v DK recently with Super Mario Maker 3DS and codeveloping Snipperclips
Normally I'd agree, but Mario Maker 3DS sold too well for them to continue that sort of grunt work.
I'm hoping for 2018 release but considering the fact that this is going to pretty big leap from previous entries I'm expecting Spring 2019 release at earliest.
The way it seems I'm not even sure if Pokemon Company/Game Freak has any idea yet. They don't seem confident in making 2018, but it's not really in the sense of being certain it will be in 2019, either. Just, well. . . a lack of confidence.
Better than another tiny Mario v Donkey Kong, wouldn't you agree?
Makes sense. I originally thought 2019, but I can see the argument of Pokémon being Holiday 2018's heavy-hitter. Though that all depends on if Game Freak can get it done in time. There's also the Sun/Moon anime to consider, but they could very well wrap things up by Holiday 2018 if they wanted to.
It contained a full new 2D Mario "campaign" (we need to have a thread for this again here, there recently was one in the old place where it turned out nobody actually realized there was a new 2D Mario hidden in SMM3DS). Again, level design came from EPD in Japan but they also added the ability for cooperative level-design with the local sharing.
I think so to, although I think we might see a "New Super Mario" game earlier but im sure we will get Mario Maker later down the line.
didnt they make a bid to become a mobile studio at some point? Nintendo could leverage that. of course, they could also go route C and fill the Switch lineup as well
I think a Mario Maker 2 is within their limits. But I wouldn't trust NST to handle something new though, like a 2D Zelda Maker for instance. I imagine EPD would want to handle that themselves.
I really hope it's LM3 and not prime 4. NLG style does just not fit metroid in any way.
