Glad to see them growing. I love the Xenoblade series, can't wait to see what they are cooking up next.Monolith Soft has grown again by 9 more people for a total of 193 by January 2019
vs 184 back in November:
They've been growing at an enormous rate for a Nintendo studio. They've almost doubled their staff since June 2016 aka the height of Xenoblade 2's development with 109 employees. With them working on two ambitious projects concurrently and this massive employee increase, it seems XBC2 paid off. The future looks very bright
Notice the growth in female stuff, which is extra nice.Monolith Soft has grown again by 9 more people for a total of 193 by January 2019
vs 184 back in November:
They've been growing at an enormous rate for a Nintendo studio. They've almost doubled their staff since June 2016 aka the height of Xenoblade 2's development with 109 employees. With them working on two ambitious projects concurrently and this massive employee increase, it seems XBC2 paid off. The future looks very bright
Weird. I don't see this on their website with updated numbers.Monolith Soft has grown again by 9 more people for a total of 193 by January 2019
vs 184 back in November:
They've been growing at an enormous rate for a Nintendo studio. They've almost doubled their staff since June 2016 aka the height of Xenoblade 2's development with 109 employees. With them working on two ambitious projects concurrently and this massive employee increase, it seems XBC2 paid off. The future looks very bright
Ahh yep that's it. I just checked their website on my laptop and it shows 193 people there.
Yes, its a great time to be a monolifthsoft fan and it's also great to see a studio clearly benefiting from successMonolith Soft has grown again by 9 more people for a total of 193 by January 2019
vs 184 back in November:
They've been growing at an enormous rate for a Nintendo studio. They've almost doubled their staff since June 2016 aka the height of Xenoblade 2's development with 109 employees. With them working on two ambitious projects concurrently and this massive employee increase, it seems XBC2 paid off. The future looks very bright
A lot of people doubt it, but I do think they can get the medieval action game out this FY. Especially if they started production in earnest before Zelda and Xenoblade 2 released
Yeah I was looking at the timeline of it, if it started in 2017, then maybe it could come out in early 2020 or late 2019 being super optimistic.
Technically they should be (ignoring resignations), however there's no actual confirmation that's actually the case from Monolith themselves.
Nintendosoup (a shitty news site that should not be cited for anything) is just google translating the Japanese post about the tweets from MLS from the new hire celebration event a month ago.
momo! And yes, with that many employees they could make as manyy games as platinum :pBig thanks to Onix555 for keeping track of Monolith Soft's employee count and creating a chart. We may get an updated number fairly soon. It is likely over 200 employees as of March 2019. That being said, Japan is currently at the tail-end of Golden Week, so no potential update until Monday at the earliest.
Would love to see something from them at E3, but they've been present for the last couple E3s, so I'm not expecting anything from them. Maybe we'll get something in a Nintendo Direct in the latter half of the year.
The Tokyo team had a hand in both "console" Zeldas since their acquisition. It's not too surprising they'll have a major roll in the next game. Nintendo is also hiring for Zelda, so it's not a secret
It seems like they've picked up a fair amount of people from the various recruitment drives starting back in August 2017. In the span of two years they've grown from 133 people on staff to 209 people.Very good to see, although it took me a while to get it as I had to reset my Chrome Cache. I was expecting a larger boost then usual due to the 4 month wait, but 16 was beyond my expectations, very nice indeed.
It's funny, when I was recording these ages ago, the graph showed the level of growth slowing down and curving off; so my assumption was that Monolith were aiming to be 180-ish or so and hold it like that. However, these past few results have completely flipped that. Now they're hiring even faster then before. We live in exciting times indeed; if they just keep on growing, they will become a powerhouse in the Japanese Industry.
Ratio's have also improved, always good to see. Not many people see this, but underneath the employee numbers section, theres a ratio target for the year. They missed last years, however 2019's target has been set to 37.5%/62.5%. [boldmovecotton.gif]
Overall, very pleased.
I really hope there will be just at least a teaser for a game to be released in 2020. I am looking forward to playing their next game because I have absolutely faith in them after playing Xenoblade 2.
not sure what fuck-up you're even talking about because there was none?
Why would it be a Zelda game? There's nothing that points to it. And no this recruitment doesn't either. All it points to is them hiring for more people to help EPD. Nintendo will never have Monolith announce they're working solely on a 3D Zelda game or even show concept art years in advance.
Is there any additional information supporting the layoffs claim aside from the staff numbers of 123 people in June 2014 and 109 people in July 2016? It's hard to tell exactly when staff left because of the two year gap in staff info. I assumed that some of the staff might have left the studio as XCX's production was winding down, but I guess we don't know for sure.
