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It's been said countless times here on Era: "Nintendo doesn't do acquisitions, but if they were to buy someone Next Level would be their best option among their partners", the Next Level shareholders decided it was time to sell (pretty smart considering the upswing in popularity for Luigi's Mansion) and Nintendo made their move to prevent their IP from losing it's designated team.
It's good news. Hopefully it's a sign that Nintendo is opening back up again in terms of acquisitions or setting up new studios, especially in the West. If nothing else they have quite a few partners that could use the financial security and resources to grow, and certainly you don't want situations like Alpha Dream, or studios being acquired out from under them. Even the situation with Arzest taking on Balan is a blow to Nintendo's output.
Their recent acquisitions all followed a trend. There's not many others right now who fit the bill
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Everyone please be aware that this is the start and end of NIntendo's acquisition spree. Save yourselves the "oooh who could they be buying next!!" hypecrash.
Yeah I was already thinking "this is the Monolith of this generation, now we need a massive hardware failure and then an outstanding comeback before they buy a new studio."
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I mean they do outline the circumstances and reasoning in their announcement. This wasn't a "we saw MS going bananas with their wallets and wanted to get in on the fun!". Even disregarding that they were already locked into their exclusive partnership, the owners saw their opening after moving 8m copies of Luigi 3 in 12 months and took it. Pretty unique scenario. None of their other frequent/regular collaborators can pull this. Grezzo and Good-Feel are the only two that come somewhat close and showed they can deal with high detail console quality output that moves units. But we should really recognize this as the once in a blue moon occurrence it is.
While the news was ultimately quite boring to me, at least it was a good excuse to update the OP :D
While the news was ultimately quite boring to me, at least it was a good excuse to update the OP :D
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that one dude was really proud he found my old post in that thread
Well, you kinda opened yourself up to that. Not that I expected it to happen either.
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I'll actually just remove it since I have no interest in keeping the employee number updated. That's what the MLS thread is there for. It's a leftover from the earlier thread templates Shikamaru made.
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check the monolithsoft thread (linked in the OP), that keeps track of their employee count
I think NLG was pushing this idea for a while, and probably had their Nintendo line-producers backing it up. It also speaks that the next Nintendo game at NLG, was probably shaping up nicely.
Arzest can't make Hey! F-Zero that people want because they're making Balan Wonderworld
I wasn't aware they had taken on an "outside" project. As someone who actually liked Hey! Pikmin, I would have taken a Hey! F-Zero too lol. But I feel like 90% of any comments regarding Arzest are negative.
Arzest has always worked on non-Nintendo projects, as did Artoon before them, but Balan Wonderworld is the biggest so far.
Yeah, I knew they worked on other projects, I just didn't hear of this one. But yeah, their games generally aren't well received on enthusiast message boards.
Are we really sad about the developer of New Yoshi's Island and Hey! Pikmin not doing a Switch project for Nintendo atm
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Same.
Hey! Pikmin is a great game that even redeemes all the atrocious soundtrack choices made in their two Yoshi games..
this meaningfully reduced my anticipation for Balan, a game I already had very little interest in.
I just don't think the game looks good. like it's missing a couple layers of polish or something. there's just this general feeling of incompleteness to the game every time they show it off
Balan Wonderworld didn't look very good in its first showing but it seems like a pretty big deal for Arzest. I wish them all the best for it tbh.
I will certainly be ashamed when Balan comes out because I couldn't counter-pick it in my fantasy league draft.
(I hope it's good so that Arzest becomes a better developer AND my competitors lose points on their counter-pick)
This is the bio of the new writer. She was hired in July:
http://meganwritesthings.com/about/
Edit: Here's an interview:
https://destinygamingblogs.com/video-game-story-writer-interview-with-megan-fausti/
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Haven't played JFO yet but people seemed pretty content with the story, I assume Disney was strongly involved (in fact, I think the Director stated so in their GameInformer 100something questions) but it's still great that they found someone who worked on another 3D Metroidvania.
A bit random but in Platinum's Astral Chain page, the copyright no longer includes them.
It used to just a couple of months back.
Maybe it means Nintendo bought their share of the IP?
It used to just a couple of months back.
Maybe it means Nintendo bought their share of the IP?
A bit random but in Platinum's Astral Chain page, the copyright no longer includes them.
It used to just a couple of months back.
Maybe it means Nintendo bought their share of the IP?
Just their share of the IP? 😉
In all seriousness, this is pretty weird. Anything similar there?
Daaaamn I'm a aspiring screenwriter myself, i wonder how people actually manage to get there
Maybe it was the cost of letting TW101 go multiplat?A bit random but in Platinum's Astral Chain page, the copyright no longer includes them.
It used to just a couple of months back.
Maybe it means Nintendo bought their share of the IP?
Hotel Dusk and Trace Memory used to be co-owned by Cing, but by the time their sequels came out they were fully owned. For an existing title this would be a first AFAIK.
That was the first thing I thought of as well.
Just seems like a weird and unnecessary thing to do, no? Nintendo is not gonna work on a new Astral Chain without PlatinumGames anyway so what's the point?
That's what makes this so weird to me. Without Platinum's touch the IP has no future and without co-ownership they've very unlikely to bother continuing working on it.
They have no stake in Bayonetta but that's Kamiya's baby and so far it's the exception.
it is indeed weird.
nintendo isn't going to make a new one without PG
PG can't make a new one without nintendo
so it seems like a rather pointless change.
nintendo isn't going to make a new one without PG
PG can't make a new one without nintendo
so it seems like a rather pointless change.
I mean realistically speaking this probably won't matter all that much in the grand scheme of things. My optimistic speculation is that they did this to sidestep future rights situations like if they wanted to rerelease the game. My most pessimistic speculation is that the IP is shelved so they cut any loose ends.
Of course, it's always possible that Furukawa opened the wallet for PG.
Of course, it's always possible that Furukawa opened the wallet for PG.
Yoshi's Woolly World
Wii U:
3DS:
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Wii:
3DS:
Diddy Kong Racing
N64:
DS:
Go Vacation
Wii:
Switch:
hm... you may be onto something here.Yoshi's Woolly World
Wii U:
3DS:
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Wii:
3DS:
Diddy Kong Racing
N64:
DS:
Go Vacation
Wii:
Switch:
Yoshi's Woolly World
Wii U:
3DS:
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Wii:
3DS:
Diddy Kong Racing
N64:
DS:
Go Vacation
Wii:
Switch:
Oh, thanks! Some interesting stuff here:
1. I wonder why and what kinds of copyrights Good-Feel held for Yoshi's Wooly World and Kirby's Epic in the first place.
2. Definitely new to me that Nintendo is a co-owner of the Go Vacation copyright.
Nintendo owns part of Go Vacation?Yoshi's Woolly World
Wii U:
3DS:
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Wii:
3DS:
Diddy Kong Racing
N64:
DS:
Go Vacation
Wii:
Switch: