nintendoeverything:
Just a few weeks ago Project Phoenix developer Hiroaki Yura blasted Nintendo, stating that the company’s hardware is not “exciting”. He did acknowledge that Nintendo’s systems can be “interesting”, but that’s where the positivity ended.
“I do want to finish the game. I do want to, I even want to, I never said this in an interview before, but I even want to refund their money because we didn’t keep the timeline.” Yura explains.
Kickstarter backers can be a negative bunch, but it seems they reserve most of their piss and vinegar for Japanese developers. Why is that?
Joanna Mueller writes: "In the end, CIA's increased scope only served to drive backers further away. Players were not impressed when the team finally released a vertical cut of the new 3D gameworld. CIA was reluctant to start over after investing so much money into their 3D models."
I hope so. It's good for the developer/publisher and it's good for more players.
The more, the merrier, as they say.
It sounds like they were initially pissed out because of the publishing thing but something has changed.
That would be cool if Nintendo now allows Japan indies to self publish. Don't see why they couldn't do it.
Interesting. Would be nice to see this game comig to more people.