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The following is a summary of JRPG news from around the web for March 27th, 2013, including commentary from legendary game developer Shigeru Miyamoto who is confident that the upcoming Wii U release of the HD edition of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, will “breath new life into [the game's] animation style”, and news on how Square-Enix's over dependence on single-player gaming places the company in a very vulnerable position moving forward.
Freedom Wars 2 was also in the works
Sammy: "It’s sad that PlayStation has moved on from some of these iconic brands, but it would be worse watching them rot. At least with this licensing strategy, there’s a legitimate opportunity for more great franchises to get a second chance. And if they sell really well, there’s always the chance Sony may decide to bring them back."
Love this idea. Let other companies release reboots of these classics to a wider audience. Everyone wins.
Remaster Puppeteer. It looked great on PS3 but it would be nice to have on PS5 with fast loading and some sort of 4k
'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.
Japan CEOs take pay cut to keep talent, USA CEO take 20 million bonuses and fire talent
wow nice i like me some wind waker one of my fav rpg game i just hope the new Zelda on Wii u give you the option to use magic in it instead of enchanted weapons that's the only thing i hate about twilight princess and skyward sword
Cmon Nintendo, i already know you make amazing games, i just want to know about release dates right now!!