Miyamoto: “Jullie kunnen meer Spin-Offs verwachten”

In de toekomst kunnen we meer spin-off games als Hyrule Warriors verwachten.

Alweer een tijdje geleden is de spin-off Hyrule Warriors gelanceerd. Deze game baseerde zich op zowel Dynastie Warriors als The Legend of Zelda, en was daarbij in de verkoop een succes. Nu wil Miyamoto doorgaan door dit succes door te zetten in meer spin-off releases. Dit verklaard hij tijdens een gesprekssessie met de investeerders. Zo zouden technieken zijn verbeterd, en zouden ze graag verder werken met hun eigen personages, de hoeveelheid software verhogen, en werken ze steeds meer samen met 3rd party companies. Nintendo ziet een rijk Wii U-jaar tegemoet in 2015.

On development time, we have already completed the step of learning new development techniques. So, we should experience less developmental delays stemming from learning new hardware. From now on, it becomes a matter of if we can use our experience efficiently and one part of our plan to do so is to use ‘spin off games’, which allow us to use our major title franchises, but create on a smaller scale and we are working hard on making these sort of derived products. In this way, we are preparing to expand on our characters while also increasing the number of software we output and allowing our customers to have their next experiences in certain franchises without waiting three years.

We are also working more and more with many different 3rd party companies to produce our titles [note: this seems to refer to outsourcing things like asset creation, cut-scenes, etc] and from this year we have begun to work with some software developers for the very first time. We are in the process of creating a system where we are actively seeking outside assistance to help us create an abundance of major titles. I feel that next year’s Wii U titles are plentiful. We will continue working hard.