Nordic Games acquires de Blob IP

I imagine the three people on Earth who are still interested in the series after de Blob 2 are quite excited.

Yikes! Well hell it's going to be in the 40's down here tonight. That's pretty absurd for us this time of year.... or any time of year really.

robio said:

Does anyone here have a harddrive for their Wii U? Mine is officially well maxed out. In fact, I think I've downloaded enough that I could fill up the internal 32 GB harddrive twice now. It's really making me hesitate on pulling the trigger on anymore digital games. So I guess it's time to bite the bullet and get an external unit. I'm curious if anything has worked well for you guys.

My old, dying SeaGate hard drive works perfectly. The only thing to remember is that if you don't use a self-powered one, you're probably going to plug it into both USB slots to get enough power because Nintendo are massive cheap arses. Otherwise any one should work.

gamingeek said:

Me!

Me too.

I bought the first game and enjoyed but never played the second one.

robio said:

Does anyone here have a harddrive for their Wii U? Mine is officially well maxed out. In fact, I think I've downloaded enough that I could fill up the internal 32 GB harddrive twice now. It's really making me hesitate on pulling the trigger on anymore digital games. So I guess it's time to bite the bullet and get an external unit. I'm curious if anything has worked well for you guys.

Nintendo doesn't want you to buy digital games. Buy physical or GTFO!

travo said:

It's snowed here, but it's gone now.

Was there a hole there too?

Miyamoto on dev time, spin-off games for major franchises

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 stuff 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.

So that explains Captain Toad and Hyrule Warriors.

So Nintendo's plan to get more HD games out is to spin off characters from major franchises and make smaller scale games, whilst also increasing output and partnering with more outside companies.

Dvader said:

Was there a hole there too?

My daughter is the third deBlob fan in the world!

Regarding FF, every semblance of coherent thought or logic was discarded a long-ass time ago in this series. It will be what it will be.

Impressive, admittedly

lol

FFV

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