Nintendo

18520 readers

89 users here now

A community for everything Nintendo. Games, news, discussions, stories etc.

Rules:

No NSFW content.
No hate speech or personal attacks.
No ads / spamming / self-promotion / low effort posts / memes etc.
No linking to, or sharing information about, hacks, ROMs or any illegal content. And no piracy talk. (Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of emulation topics is fine.)
No console wars or PC elitism.
Be a decent human (or a bot, we don't discriminate against bots... except in Point 7).
All bots must have mod permission prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules. For lemmy.world bot rules click here

Upcoming First Party Games (NA):

Game | Date

Mario & Luigi: Brothership | Nov 7 Donkey Kong Country Returns HD | Jan 16, 2025 Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | Mar 20, 2025 Metroid Prime 4 | 2025

Other Gaming Communities

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

185

After Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's performance issues, the developer is having "conversations" about how often new games release (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 1 year ago by CosmicSploogeDrizzle to c/nintendo

60 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (14 children)

It really seems like Gamefreak just can’t handle 3D games, but they’ve been forced to since the Switch is now the only main platform for Nintendo.

I feel like the games would really flourish if they were taken away from Gamefreak and given to a different studio to handle.

They get like 3 years between each major title, that doesn’t seem unreasonable. If they’re overwhelmed by remakes and side games then they need to outsource those parts, but maybe they’re worried about being shown up by another studio.

[–] CosmicSploogeDrizzle 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's the thing. Ganefreak needs to up the bar because eventually if they ignore feedback long enough they will be hit with a disappointing release that doesnt sell gangbusters. At that point the IP will be given to a new studio and Ganefreak will be out of work and have a shit portfolio to get new work. These games sell because they are Pokemon games. Without the IP, Ganefreak will be up shits creek

[–] Mithre 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That can't happen, as Gamefreak owns a partial share of Pokemon, along with Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They'll still have to work to improve things because it'll affect their bottom line enough.