It's a fact Nintendo has games 'frozen' after being developed/ halfway developed. Miyamoto gave one example with 'Pikmin 4' being near completion last year.
How many/which games could be in the freezer?
Let's take a look at EAD's output since the Wii U started...
Softwave dev groups:
Group 1: made MK8 in 3 years
Group 2: made Splatoon in one year (according to themselves in interviews), made ACHHD in max. 2 years
Group 3: made WWHD and ALBW in a maximum span of 2 years (we know for a fact the new Zelda was being worked on before WWHD)
Group 4: made Pikmin 3 and NSMBU in the span of 3 years and Mario Maker in the span of a year and half (if we judge that the E3 version 2 years ago was half a year in development.
Probably has completed Pikmin 4 in that timespan too.
Group 5: Wii Fit U was their last console game, fucking Star Fox 3D from 2011 was their last decent full game, what the fuck have these people been up to (if not helping out other groups).
There's more ....
>>340141440
Tokyo Group 1: made MM3D and a bunch of augmented reality shit since, 2011
Tokyo Group 2: Tomodachi Life and app stuff, but that's them being themselves I think
Doesn't that look like a lot of time for few games? These are the people that developed almost the whole Wii library in fucking 4 years, and four years since the last big Wii release they've only made so few games.
The question isn't if there's a freezer, but what's in it. So, /v/, what's in it?
Star Fox 2. The game was finished and then Nintendo iced it. There's a version even more finished than the one that leaked online, but we'll probably never see it.
>>340144119
Was thinking about Wii U era stuff, but yeah, they have SF2 in tha freeza
Its definitely nx stuff. That's why there are barely any games coming out this year. They said they are making sure the nx has a full library with no droughts
>>340144431
Yeah looks like that to me too. That will be NX's gimmick, too much fucking games.
>>340141440
those EAD group numbers are not accurate because EAD and SPD have merged into one entity
>>340145861
its not like other people suddenly start working on the projects from the old EAD groups. SPD was just a big swat of devs that helped a lot of random projects and made stuff like the browser, according to wikipedia.
Its either mobile or nx. Maybe one or two Wii u games.
3ds is pretty much over too, anything else will be third/second party.
Actually we might get another remake/HD thingey come to think of it
>>340146216
Sure its just NX dawg, like the mobile games are gonna be made by that one Nipponese company
>>340146114
>SPD was just a big swat of devs that helped a lot of random projects
SPD had it's own unmistakable identity distinctly different from EAD group's output
they were basically continuing Yokoi "games are toys" legacy with games like WarioWare and Rhythm Heaven and Tomodachi
>>340146519
Basically everything they do is in co-development with someone else
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Software_Planning_%26_Development#Production_Group_No._3
Not saying they don't have identity, but I don't think a SPD group is gonna make a big game solo in like a year and a bit.
I remenber when a few years after Wii U launch they admitted they were not used to making HD games and it took them much more time than planned.
They just sacrificed the Wii U so they could get a more comfortable headstart for the NX.
This includes Pikmin 4 and probably Animal Crossing U, maybe the Retro's project too.
so much hope in this thread
