Rumor: Ueda quits Sony, finishing The Last Guardian as freelancer

@49 “I don’t think so.”

Unfortunately, the overwhelming burden of proof (not only in news, but actual printed literature to boot) stacks up significantly against what you “think”. Nintendo are as totalitarian a company as you can get in this industry, ruthlessly so.

The only reasons they’re loosening the reigns in recent years is because the company is in the worst financial state right now that its ever been in its history as a video game company. The Wii is practically dead. The 3DS has been an abject financial failure. Miyamoto hasn’t had a truly creative idea in almost a decade.

#50 oh and you hold the truth of the matter on the shareholders you have inside information knowing quite well they demanded iwatas and the top exec cutting income instead of the nintendo employees

@51: Don’t they still have enough money from the Wii sales?

@52 It takes five minutes of research to find out the kind of underhanded and overbearing tactics Nintendo has committed over the years.

We apologise that your rose tinted image of Nintendo doesn’t hold up against documented facts, but it’s pretty clear here whose researched this information here, and who hasn’t.

@53 They’re pretty much hanging on by a thread right now.

They’re not exactly in THQ territory, but they have managed to squander their momentum. They’re worth roughly what they were 10 years ago.

#54 look Theres a lot of literature out there that indicates, for example like the other commenter put it, the atari tetris issue regarding the nintendo restrictions on the lockup chip, that this was a demostration of nintendo being “ruthless” and only to make money and dominate the market with and iron fist, and there are other authors that also indicates that it could be very well to prevent another industry wide crash like in 1984 with this rules and restrictions, and as such can surely save the industry we known today.

Therefore theres always two ways of seeing things according to authors of the diverse literature, but what iam trying to say the well documented literature you mention is always and opinion,it is based on a person opinion just like me and you, and for that can create multiple ways of seeing things you go with one i go with the other, fine by me.

And i believe i didnt make my self clear or understood, i said nintendo as a game developer is very friendly,it is very diferent for nintendo as a company, which can be ruthless or not depend on the eye of the beholder, is not what iam trying to say, it is that is a friendly enviorement for gaming development becuase it gives the right time to make the game the best it can be, thats why they keep pushing back release dates on their core franchises, and for that i think this will be a good site for ueda or another big developer with this moto, till this day i havent see any news regarding nintendo treating bad their employees, thats the reason for all that i stated in this thread.

@64 They’re only friendly as a game developer in so far as you work to build *their* franchises as *they* want them designed.

Why the hell would Ueda want to spend the rest of his career rehashing Mario and Zelda?

#57 man i also put another big developer with nintendo moto, i mean another developer that prioritizes a good well made game no matter the time taken even if it needs multiple push backs, i dont want him releasing zelda or mario neither for that is miyamoto man, let me catch a break please 8D.
p.s and is not @64 is 56 8D, this thread is not that longer unless you want so 8D

We had Retro studios come to our school and talk about their experience with being a first party developer and they had nothing but the up most respect for Nintendo and how they put polish and their employees first. As far as creativity goes they said that Miyamoto wouldn’t ever do the hand of doom if the company would go off the mark and would just give critiques on what they had done.
I for one after being in a room full of students and Retro studio development team and discussing their experience, wouldn’t mind working for Nintendo whether it is Metroid Prime, Zelda, Mario or a new Game entirely. Those are all great games and they put polish as a priority unlike most developers and publishers now a days.

@34 nailed. +1

@59 You’re missing the point.

Ueda is clearly a developer with his own creative ideas. I highly doubt the last thing he would want to do is sit around and work on mandated franchise releases by Nintendo. They’re fun games, don’t get me wrong, but they’re not exactly emotionally profound or deep.

Retro Studios are a great developer, but that’s clearly the path they were comfortable with talking.