Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 26, 2004, 07:06:49 PM
Nintendo has a new game studio consisting of former employees of the following game studio's:1.) Capcom
2.) Namco
3.) Konami
4.) Square-Enix
5.) Sega
supposedely aroung 60 members strong and Nintendo exclusive.
Good news if true!!
Post by: Infernal Monkey on January 26, 2004, 07:59:02 PM
Post by: DrZoidberg on January 26, 2004, 08:09:10 PM
especially members from Sega,
Sega, aslong as they are left alone to make new titles, it will be even hotter, this could be the best damn news i've heard all generation!
Post by: Ocarina Blue on January 26, 2004, 09:07:11 PM
A studio like this would be amazing. Nintendo needs a few original games that grab peoples' attention. Pikmin was great, but it hardly stood out. Even something of a stock standard genre with strong design principles would do a world of good (look at how Tales is going). Whatever it is, these are the people to do it.
Post by: Hybrid Hunter on January 27, 2004, 02:49:25 AM
Lets hope this is true, because it sounds great. But too good to be true...
Post by: Bill Aurion on January 27, 2004, 03:05:58 AM
Post by: SearanoX on January 27, 2004, 04:23:09 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on January 27, 2004, 06:54:31 AM
If they exist they better be working on some new stuff in genres Nintendo isn't too hot in. If they're just making Mario spin-offs that EAD doesn't have time to do themselves then there's no point in forming this studio. Every Nintendo studio should have their own style and work on their own unique type of games.
Post by: PaLaDiN on January 27, 2004, 06:59:48 AM
QuoteNot really, and Retro Studios is a pretty good counter-example that shows the people under the head are just as important.
The real question is who is the head of this team. I mean the five greatest third parties in Japan are mentioned but that doesn't mean that much if these employees were only minor players in their companies. A former Konami employee doesn't mean sh!t if all that guy worked on were Disney sports titles. I want to know who the head of this team is and what he's worked on in the past because that wil give some indication of what this studio is capable of.
Post by: Bill Aurion on January 27, 2004, 06:59:49 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on January 27, 2004, 07:06:16 AM
Well Intelligent Systems did work on Paper Mario and Mario Kart: Super Circuit but overall, yeah, you're right. I forgot that most of the developers that do spin-offs are third parties like Hudson and Camelot.
Post by: Chode2234 on January 27, 2004, 07:19:12 AM
Post by: DrZoidberg on January 27, 2004, 08:09:44 AM
Post by: Oldskool on January 27, 2004, 08:41:29 AM
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Originally posted by: Infernal Monkey
Yeah, I heard this on another board earlier today. Apparently the ex-members have all been picked by Shiggy himself, so they've gotta be damn impressive.
Nintendo Special Forces!
Post by: Majexto on January 27, 2004, 09:03:06 AM
Post by: manunited4eva22 on January 27, 2004, 09:40:27 AM
Post by: Bill Aurion on January 27, 2004, 09:54:32 AM
Camelot is a 3rd party that likes working with Nintendo(They worked on the first Hotshots Golf for PS1, for example)
Post by: akdaman1 on January 27, 2004, 01:20:06 PM
p.s - Why does everyone put down C-E , it really is a great site and this news is actually 2-3 days old.
Post by: KnowsNothing on January 27, 2004, 02:53:47 PM
This is great news. The only developer they're missing is Silicon Knights, but they're in Canada and they just wouldn't seem to "fit in" with the rest of them.
Post by: ThePerm on January 27, 2004, 02:56:06 PM
Post by: Djunknown on January 27, 2004, 03:39:18 PM
Hopefully after Prime 2 and whatever SK has in its sleeve (aside from Metal Gear, still no word on Too Human....), that these two can start cranking titles to so 'Cube owners don't suffer extensive gaming droughts.
Post by: Termin8Anakin on January 27, 2004, 04:56:42 PM
A games drought on GC is the last thing we need, so games releases spread throughout 2004 and 2005 would bea good idea.
Post by: ThePerm on January 27, 2004, 05:05:40 PM
Post by: Polemistis on January 27, 2004, 05:23:51 PM
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Originally posted by: ThePerm
http://www.jinjapan.org/nipponia/nipponia9/start.html
W-T-F ? Am I missing something in that article, or is that just spam?
Post by: rpglover on January 27, 2004, 05:31:02 PM
no- in the article it points out the distance between kyoto and tokyo:
from the article: "an ekiden race from Kyoto to Tokyo, over a distance of 508 km"
Post by: Termin8Anakin on January 27, 2004, 05:44:30 PM
Post by: savanna03 on January 27, 2004, 06:45:42 PM
hmmm, in an related matter, CANADA has SILICON KNIGHT, US has RETRO STUDIO, JAPAN has EAD and UK used to have RARE but im really hoping ZOONAMI will fill up the hole that RARE left. maybe NINTENDO should open up a studio that is SPORT ORIENTED... better than LEFT FIELD and NST combine.
