No, he became an executive officer for Nintendo and the general manager of the Marketing and Licensing divisions.
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Are you referring to my post?
If so, no.
We knew that he would become a director at Nintendo in Japan, but this position at The Pokémon Company is new.
He's basically replacing Shuntaro Furukawa who occupied this position until now.
But Furukawa is still an Outside Director of the Pokemon Company. Did you read the document you posted?
Perhaps it's a transitional period, where Shibata gets introduced to his new job by Furukawa (and Furukawa in the meantime as well to his new job as CEO).
Oh. Now that I read it closer, this is a document about the election of internal directors for the board of Nintendo for the Investor meeting later this month, which now makes more sense. That means, it isn't clear if Furukawa has stopped being an outside director for the Pokemon Company (for reference Nintendo has 3 or so Outside Directors).
Shibata became Outside Director in May. Furukawa will become CEO on 28 June. It would make most sense if he quits the Outside Director role when he becomes CEO, which would mean he currently still is Outside Director, alongside Shibata.
He's not.
Note the lack of the wording "to present":
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/convocation_notice1806e.pdf
Compared to last year's document:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/convocation_notice1706e.pdf
He was outside director of The Pokémon Company until April:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/180426_5e.pdf
Then Satoru Shibata took over in May as we can see in today's document.
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Was gonna post the Shibata stuff. We still don't know who is taking over NoE prez duties, right?
According to an Italian website that contacted Nintendo Italia about a month ago, Koji Miyake will be the Chairman/CEO and Stephan Bole the new President/COO.
Source: https://multiplayer.it/notizie/1984...nuova-struttura-per-la-divisione-europea.html
Koji Miyake (Chairman/CEO):
Stephan Bole (President/COO):
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^ cheers!
Interesting. No idea who Miyake is or what he's done but I am actually surprised that we're getting someone from Nintendo of France as the new Shibata.
Interesting. No idea who Miyake is or what he's done but I am actually surprised that we're getting someone from Nintendo of France as the new Shibata.
I think Stephan Bole is a great choice, he spent years at the command of Nintendo France, and France is one of the best markets for Nintendo in Europe.
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.....................an update for this thread's OP. the reason why it exists. what teams are working on^^ because e3.
see that ":P" there? sarcasm :)
Weeeee
He's not.
Note the lack of the wording "to present":
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/convocation_notice1806e.pdf
Compared to last year's document:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/convocation_notice1706e.pdf
He was outside director of The Pokémon Company until April:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/180426_5e.pdf
Then Satoru Shibata took over in May as we can see in today's document.
Pretty interesting information.
Only real first party game for the second half is fucking Mario Party. Smash is Bandai and Pokemon is Game Freak.
Like wtf is happening?
Last year their modus operandi was having at least one Nintendo developed game per month. Now we get one game in six months. If you don't see the problem with that I don't know what I can tell you.
I remember back in January when those of us who were disappointed with the Direct mini were scolded mercilessly by the diehards. It was a sign of things to come.
It's not new for Nintendo to be unable to keep a steady pipeline of titles, but... in year 2 of a smash hit console? With 3DS on life support?
It's not new for Nintendo to be unable to keep a steady pipeline of titles, but... in year 2 of a smash hit console? With 3DS on life support?
They had 6 Nintendo developed games (using the same criteria as you) last year, over 10 months.
how is that true? Mario Party is october, Pokémon is November and Smash is december. If anything, only in August and September so far there's no games
And last year they hadn't that much
I don't see the problem with games being developed externally, those do count for me. EPD can only do so much on their own (but this year they're releasing... only Labo?!).
The problem is that this year's lineup is lacking not only in quantity but also in innovation, ambition, scope and variety. They're not even releasing any large single-player focused games for the whole of 2018.
The problem is that this year's lineup is lacking not only in quantity but also in innovation, ambition, scope and variety. They're not even releasing any large single-player focused games for the whole of 2018.
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I mean, they had a game cancelled according to rumors and their lead game designer left (confirmed) and their creative director is rumored to have been demoted.
So, uhh, things obviously haven't gone well.
But I don't think StarFox Racing has been in development for very long at all (like, probably summer 2016) and Nintendo probably just ate 3 years of cancelled development for Retro. StarFox Racing coming out summer 2019 would probably be a fine dev cycle.
I'm usually the voice of reason when it comes to topics like this but I'm ready to hit the panic button
Eh. You are right.
To me the real issue is the discrepancy between the audience they courted year 1 of the switch and the major releases they promise for year 2 of the switch.
I mean, they were working on a game that seemingly got cancelled back in September 2017 (when their lead game designer left the company)
So, uhh, that obviously hurt their productivity a lot to be working on a game for so long that was enough of a dumpster fire to get cancelled.
I don't think they're in trouble. If you go by the rumors they were working on a game that sorta devolved into development hell and shelved, possibly cancelled, and then started working on Star Fox GP. Insiders have said Star Fox won't be coming out this year, so it was unlikely they would be at E3, since Retro's games are usually announced the same year they are released.
Star Fox in StarLink all but sealed it yesterday. There's no way they'd be putting out or even announcing a Star Fox game with anything remotely close to traditional space flight in the same time as Ubisoft's game, but people didn't really seem to listen to me about that.
Nintendo is such a weird company. Sometimes they know what they are doing but then are this strange Nintendo things:
- The Online Service
- whatever they will do with their classic games
- their mess with websites and eshops in different layouts for each region.
- The lack of functionality of the switch software.
Of all of things we don't if it is meant to be or work in progress.
But I think (or now after the e3 direct I hope) they are improving.
- The Online Service
- whatever they will do with their classic games
- their mess with websites and eshops in different layouts for each region.
- The lack of functionality of the switch software.
Of all of things we don't if it is meant to be or work in progress.
But I think (or now after the e3 direct I hope) they are improving.
Just reporting in to say Nintendo crushed my enthusiasm for the Switch yesterday. I feel stupid for believing things had changed when they combined all their development resources under one umbrella, and all on one platform. Last year was great, but that was a given with how long a build up they had for the Switch launch. 2018 was always the real test in my eyes, and they've failed that test.
Nope. EPD's entire output in 2018 might end up being Labo and the Captain Toad port.
Wouldn't spending years on a project that devolved into a development hell kind of be the definition of trouble?
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Madness!
So as it stands:
Developed
2017
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
1, 2, Switch
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
ARMS
Splatoon 2
Super Mario Odyssey
2018
Nintendo LABO Toy-Con 01: Variety
Nintendo LABO Toy-Con 02: Robot
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
Published
2017
Snipperclips: Cut It Out, Together
Flip Wars
Fire Emblem Warriors
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
2018
Bayonetta
Bayonetta 2
Kirby Star Allies
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition
Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido
Mario Tennis Aces
Super Mario Party
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Related
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Pokken Tournament DX
Pokemon Let's Go: Pikachu! / Eevee!
2017: (9 months)
12 titles
2018:
13 titles
Still hitting an average of a title-per-month
Cue the 2019 EPD slew
Counting Bayo 1/2 as separate games? Labo kits? The 2017 lineup is much more impressive.
You also forgot Pokken in 2017.
Hey they count Bayonetta and LABO as separate titles, not me!
Pokken is there under 'related' as it was published by The Pokemon Company but is still obviously... related.
Games that are missing are stuff like Octopath, Go Vaction, Skyrim and other instances where Nintendo handle publishing duties for specific regions only...
2017 was undoubtably superior I agree, 3 (okay, okay 2) internally developed titles in a full calendar year (14 months considering Odyssey was Oct) is absolutely ridiculous.
Putting out so many ports to plug gaps in your new systems second year is just wow.
Well according to Matt, a very trustworthy insider, they apparently have a ton of stuff they could've shown but chose to focus on Smash and Pokemon instead.
Which, don't get me wrong, is an extremely baffling and infuriating decision IMO, but it seems they do have a lot of other games still. No idea if they'll release this year though.
No, not if that happened years ago like the rumors suggest. Sure, they were likely in trouble then (2015-2016) but if they've been working on Star Fox since then I don't see any reason to panic.
Oh shit, I didn't see this. Could you link to it? (Sorry, there are so many Nintendo threads going right now that I can't keep them straight.)
Are these titles coming out in 2018? If so, jesus christ Nintendo.
Well, I do believe that Nintendo counted on Fire Emblem and Yoshi making it for 2018 when they planned out the year.
Pure speculation of course but it does seem like this is an extremely unfortunate situation for everyone.
Pure speculation of course but it does seem like this is an extremely unfortunate situation for everyone.
Sorry, I'm not buying it. I think they showed what they have as far as retail releases for the remainder of the year, just like they did in January for the first half of this year.
Of course I believe something smaller could get announced later, but nothing substantial. N64 Classic seems likely.
Matt has proven to be reliable numerous times. "Not buying it" seems kind of ridiculous when it comes from him at this point.
He's not the only one too. Doctre81 said something very similar in his E3 review video.
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