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[junkwaffle]

I respek!

 

[jarrod]

Anyway... moving outside EAD for Nintendo owned devs there's...

HAL Laboratory
-Kirby Adventure (GC) Q4 2005
-Super Smash Bros (REV) 2006

Intelligent Systems
-Wario Ware (REV) tba

Retro Studios
-Metroid Prime 3 (REV) tba

Game Freak Entertaiment
-Drill Dozer (GBA) Q3 2005
-Pokemon Diamond Version (DS) 2006
-Pokemon Pearl Version (DS) 2006

Genius Sonority
-Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (GC) Q3 2005
-Pokemon Tourouze (DS) Q4 2005

Ambrella
-Pokemon Ranger: The Road to Diamond & Pearl (DS) Q1 2006

Spiral
-Custom Robo Ace (GBA) 2006

Brownie Brown
-Magical Vacation 2 (DS) 2006

Nintendo Software Technology
-Metroid Prime: Hunters (DS) Q1 2006


...and external contracted games...

Namco
-Mario Superstar Baseball (GC) Q3 2005
-Mario Kart: Arcade GP (TF) Q4 2005

Konami JPN
-Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (GC) Q3 2005

Hudson Soft
-Mario Party 7 (GC) Q4 2005

Camelot Software Planning
-Mario Tennis Advance (GBA) Q3 2005
-Golden Sun (REV) tba

Chunsoft
-Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon: Blue Rescue Force (DS) Q2 2006
-Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon: Red Rescue Force (GBA) Q2 2006

Alpha Dream
-Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (DS) Q4 2005
-Tottoko Hamtaro Ham Ham Q (DS) Q4 2005

T&E Soft
-Touch Golf (DS) Q3 2005

Aki
-Mawashite Tsunagaru Touch Panic (DS) Q4 2005

Mitchell
-Tsuukin Hitofude (GBA) Q4 2005

Vivarium
-Odama (GC) 2006

Skip
-Chibirobo (GC) Q3 2005

Next Level Games
-Super Mario Strikers (GC) Q4 2005

Fuse Games
-Metroid Prime: Pinball (DS) Q4 2005

Kuju Entertainment
-Battalion Wars (GC) Q4 2005

Rare
-Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) Q4 2005

 

[mCACGj]

Anyway... moving outside EAD for Nintendo owned devs there's...

HAL Laboratory
-Kirby Adventure (GC) Q4 2005
-Super Smash Bros (REV) 2006

Isn't Hal working on Mother 3 too? Or is another developer working on it?

 

[Chittagong]

How about the companies that did Another Code and Ouendan?

 

[JavyOO7]

Hey Ninja,

What's the chances that Miyamoto might direct the next Mario (Revolution)?

 

[dog$]

About the same as the chance is of Miyamoto demoting himself, right?

 

[Dan]

Alpha Dream
-Tottoko Hamtaro Ham Ham Q (DS) Q4 2005

What's the story with this? First I've heard of another Hamtaro game.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

So wait, Super Mario Bros DS, meaning NEW Mario Bros, is not coming til late next year?

 

[jarrod]

What is the Digitylish series? Super Peach Princess looks like an EAD game. Mother 3 I think I know who is doing that. The anime games I believe Nintendo is just acting as producer and publisher.

Thanks. Digitylish was announced at E3, it's the showpiece for Micro's western debut.

Isn't Hal working on Mother 3 too? Or is another developer working on it?

HAL isn't doing it. They only co-developed Mother 2 with Ape anyway. EAD handled the Mother 1+2 GBA port.

How about the companies that did Another Code and Ouendan?

That would be Cing and iNiS respectively.

What's the story with this? First I've heard of another Hamtaro game.

Only announced so far, no idea besides the platform, developer and release period.

Super Princess Peach looks a lot like a Tose game to me. Very reminiscent of the Stafy games.

Now that you mention it, that makes a lot of sense. Wouldn't surprise me in the least really, TOSE is pretty close with the former RD1.

 

[Cheerilee]

How about the companies that did Another Code and Ouendan?

Cing developed Another Code/Trace Memory for Nintendo. (It should come out in America in a month.)

Before that they developed "Glass Rose" on the PS2 for Capcom. I don't recall hearing anything about Glass Rose since way back when it was rumored to be the sixth member of the Capcom 5, but IGN seems to say that it was a 3D point-and-click adventure game that wasn't quite as good as older adventure games. Much like most Another reviews. Glass Rose featured a popular Japanese boy-band lead (cute lolis are a much better idea).

Cing's website seems to say that they recently finished putting together Nintendo's Another Code website, and then something about Harvest Moon on mobile phones. They don't mention themselves in the copyrights for it, so maybe that's just what they're currently playing or something.

Hopefully now that Cing's finished Another so soon into the DS's lifespan, they're going to be working on another touch-and-click adventure game for the DS, and with all the basics in place maybe they can concentrate entirely on the content and put together something that blows everyone away and brings adventure games back from the grave. I can dream, can't I?

 

[mCACGj]

HAL isn't doing it. They only co-developed Mother 2 with Ape anyway. EAD handled the Mother 1+2 GBA port.

So EAD is doing it? Someone has to be developing it, so it's EAD?

 

[ziran]

Super Princess Peach looks a lot like a Tose game to me. Very reminiscent of the Stafy games.

yeah, i agree. i thought of tose when i first saw it.

isn't q-games [dylan cuthbert - starfox] developing digitylish?

Spiral
-Custom Robo Ace (GBA) 2006

jarrod, what happened to noise? they developed the previous custom robo games.

 

[evolutionseed]

One new IP in a sea of rehashed characters from nintendos' stable. I love nintendo, but thats just not right. They should concentrate on developing atleast three games based on new IP's every year for each platform respectively.

 

[DDayton]

One new IP in a sea of rehashed characters from nintendos' stable. I love nintendo, but thats just not right. They should concentrate on developing atleast three games based on new IP's every year for each platform respectively.

You know, I think Nintendo just pumps out so much software each year, it's easy to ignore the original stuff they do create. In a span of 12 months, the following unique titles have been or will be released for various Nintendo platforms: Another Code, Band Bros., Nintendogs, Drill Dozer, Digistylish, and (via stretching it a bit) Battalion Wars and Chibi Robo (they will be new Nintendo properties, even if they didn't develop them internally).

Nintendo is in a bit of a tough spot when it comes to game development -- they have more "active" IP than any other company I can think of. They keep their various game series active by releasing new titles less often than other companies might, but frequently enough to keep the series relevant. The only Nintendo title that begins to approach EA/Capcom release frequency is the Mario Party series, and every title in the MP series is still completely unique.

How many active IP does Nintendo have at this point, anyway? How many do the other big publishers have?

Active Game Series (At least one recent game, and/or prospects of a future sequel)
Animal Crossing
Custom Robo
Donkey Kong (could be greatly broken down, but I'm just going to keep it as DK for the moment)
Fire Emblem
F-Zero
Golden Sun
Kirby
Kuru Kuru Kurin (?)
Legend of Zelda
Magical Vacation
Mario Kart
Mario Party
Mario "Sports" (which could be further subdivided, but I digress)
Metroid
Pikmin
Pokemon
Star Fox
Starfi
Super Mario series
Super Smash Bros.
Wario Land (including Wario World)\
Wario Ware
Wars

Dormant Series (Future releases are uncertain/unlikely)
Doshin the Giant
Excitebike
Mother
Pilotwings
Punch-Out
1080
Wave Race

Nintendo has at least 23 popular and active game series, and at least 7 other series which may or may not see sequels in the near future -- on top of the 1-2 new titles created per year. Does any other company even attempt to keep that many different titles active?

 

[Shiggy]

When was this announced? Digitylish?

Digitylish Series was announced at E3 2005. As far as I know it wasn't playable. The game itself has several minigames, you could compare them to games like Pac-Man arcade (not the gameplay). One of those minigames was made by Q-Games.

It's unknown whether Digitylish Series will be released this October in Europe, in the newer releaselists it is nowhere anymore.


@jarrod
Brownie Brown develops a Revolution game too.
And Chibi-Robo was always finished. Skip Ltd. currently has 2 teams. The old team made Giftpia and Chibi-Robo.

@mCACGj
I think many of the old Mother 3 developers are working on it (with Shigesato Itoi at the top)

 

[Tempy]

Are we getting a new portable Fire Emblem anytime soon?

 

[jarrod]

jarrod, what happened to noise? they developed the previous custom robo games.

Noise actually co-developed the N64 games with Spiral. I remember reading though that Spiral was handling the new GBA installment alone.

 

[GaimeGuy]

You know, I think Nintendo just pumps out so much software each year, it's easy to ignore the original stuff they do create. In a span of 12 months, the following unique titles have been or will be released for various Nintendo platforms: Another Code, Band Bros., Nintendogs, Drill Dozer, Digistylish, and (via stretching it a bit) Battalion Wars and Chibi Robo (they will be new Nintendo properties, even if they didn't develop them internally).

Nintendo is in a bit of a tough spot when it comes to game development -- they have more "active" IP than any other company I can think of. They keep their various game series active by releasing new titles less often than other companies might, but frequently enough to keep the series relevant. The only Nintendo title that begins to approach EA/Capcom release frequency is the Mario Party series, and every title in the MP series is still completely unique.

How many active IP does Nintendo have at this point, anyway? How many do the other big publishers have?

Active Game Series (At least one recent game, and/or prospects of a future sequel)
Animal Crossing
Custom Robo
Donkey Kong (could be greatly broken down, but I'm just going to keep it as DK for the moment)
Fire Emblem
F-Zero
Golden Sun
Kirby
Kuru Kuru Kurin (?)
Legend of Zelda
Magical Vacation
Mario Kart
Mario Party
Mario "Sports" (which could be further subdivided, but I digress)
Metroid
Pikmin
Pokemon
Star Fox
Starfi
Super Mario series
Super Smash Bros.
Wario Land (including Wario World)\
Wario Ware
Wars

Dormant Series (Future releases are uncertain/unlikely)
Doshin the Giant
Excitebike
Mother
Pilotwings
Punch-Out
1080
Wave Race

Nintendo has at least 23 popular and active game series, and at least 7 other series which may or may not see sequels in the near future -- on top of the 1-2 new titles created per year. Does any other company even attempt to keep that many different titles active?

EA has something like 30-35 running series. But they release something like 20-25% of ALL games out there, so that's to be expected.

 

[wonderfuldays]

wait, DS/GC Zelda both Spring 2006?

new features = connectivity.

GC CAN NOT connect with DS

(OMG, Rev = Yes :lol )