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Interesting article about how many of the aging Old Head creatives at Nintendo may retire in the Switch 2 era, including Miyamoto (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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All speculation, nothing definitive, but a thought I found interesting

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[+] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Undertale sold well enough to the point that it granted him financial independence and allowed him to work on Deltarune at his own pace.

Maybe even to the point where he got sidetracked too much, because Chapter 3 and 4 definitely took much longer than he expected. It was supposed to release with Chapter 5 after all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

in one of the newsletters, he said a lot of what kept three and four so long was getting the framework and tool-set fleshed out, so it will be easier to build subsequent chapters off of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree, except that Nintendo has somehow managed to actually be the exception to that. Tears of the Kingdoms mechanics (fuse, ascend and rewind) are the type of mechanics you would have seen some flash or indie game a decade ago and would have been wowed by, except seamlessly incorporated into a giant open world action adventure game. For all their shitty business practices and shovel ware Mario party games, they have somehow managed to leave some actual free design space for creatives to mess around in at the base of their biggest franchises and that's more than I can say for like all of the rest of the industry.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

until members of the old guard start making public statements about it, I think it's safer to assume they're just gonna be their till they're dead

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Oh no, we might get something new.

What are us aging millennials gonna do when they stop remarketing our beloved childhood cartoon characters back to us every year.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

may finally get that futuristic alien invasion Zelda

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Old heads like these also don't retire

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Too bad no masuda, he basically ruined pokemon consoles