The chain reaction set off by Shigeru Miyamoto’s announcement of the delay of the Wii U exclusive Star Fox ZERO has been a rather big one.
Several Nintendo fans quickly expressed their disdain for the announcement with statements like: “the Wii U is officially dead”, “it’s going to suffer this winter” and “Nintendo’s digging their own grave“.
With that in mind, some have pointed to Splatoon as reference, arguing that it wasn’t finished at the time of its release, and has been getting away with receiving regular updates. No doubt, it is true that a lot of content was missing from the title upon its release, but can Nintendo truly do the same thing for Star Fox ZERO?
'We believe that it is important to nurture developers who take this unique concept to heart.' -Miyamoto
By making pretty much only AA games so they can sell them for the same price as AAA games.
By being threatened by dev teams innovating on formulas found in your cash cow, but are either afraid or lack the talent to implement themselves
Well with the exception of Zelda and Xenoblade Chronicles series, Nintendo first party games are usually less demanding (see Arms, Nintendo sports series 2d kirby + mario games, Mario sports series, Warioware, Mario Party etc).
Zelda doesnt even have voice acting for its characters most of the time and its games use simpler textures than lets say Horizon Zero Dawn, Last of Us, Gears of War 5 etc which means that the development costs are lower.
Even so, their games are generally polished and well thought of and as the Switch generation showed, many of their franchises actually grew considerably in sales (Kirby , Xenoblades, Metroid etc).
I still love Zelda, and Mario Kart/Party is always a good time as well, although Nintendo isn't chasing hyper realistic graphics like a lot of the other studios are.
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Nintendo’s iconic developer Shigeru Miyamoto gives a talk to new employees each year to appraise them of the company’s values and what it takes to create excellent video games.
Takaya Imamura, famed ex-Nintendo developer known for his work on the F-Zero and Star Fox franchises, has taken to social media to ponder the possibility of a Star Fox Zero release on Nintendo's upcoming 'Switch 2'.
It's a good ponder. Nintendo would be stupid to not do it. The more titles and first party line up released on the Switch 2 the more enticed the customer will be.
Because it's a Star Fox game and not Splatoon. Good job.
Who cares. People need to man up and stop acting like a bunch of children every time a game gets pushed back a few months. This is the real world and things aren't always hunky-dory perfect and on time.
Almost every single game in the industry gets delayed at least once, sometimes 2 or 3 times. And this wasn't even a major delay, just a slip from Q4 to Q1.
Not saying you have to like it but you'd think- considering this is almost the norm- that people would become a little more calloused to this sort of thing
I'm wondering why Star Fox Zero can't be a soccer management sim.