Nintendo President Says Longer Game Development Cycles AreUnavoidable


The Legend of Zelda: Lágrimas del Reino
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Games are only getting bigger, and if you’re wondering what Nintendo’s take is on lengthier development cycles, the company president thinks it’sunavoidable”. In a recent shareholder Q&La, Shuntaro Furukawa mentioned how game development today ismore prolonged, more complex, and more advancedand to deal with this, Nintendo must continually expand itsdevelopment resourcesand makingnecessary investments”.

Nintendo’s Senior Managing Executive Officer and Corporate Director Shinya Takahashi reiterated how it was “inevitable” for software development cycles to increase as hardware advances, but at the same time thinks Nintendo issucceedingin its efforts to shorten overall development cycles bysteadily improving the development environment”.

This same question touched on how Super Mario Bros. Preguntarse fue el “first new 2D Mario game in 11 año” and although it’s been this long between releases, according to Takahashiit is not as if Super Mario Bros. Wonder was under continuous development for nearly a decade”. La “long gap betweenthe releases was because of various initiatives and studies.

Although this is the case with the latest Mario game, Nintendo has experienced some incredibly long development cycles this generation with games like The Legend of Zelda: Lágrimas del Reino and the upcoming release Metroid Prime 4: Más allá de, which was even restarted at one point. This follows a comment Furukawa made about Generative AI, mencionando como es “open to utilizing technological developmentsbut would continue delivering value thatcannot be created by technology alone”.