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Itagaki: I WILL RELEASE Devil's Third in North and South America
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the androgyne
Member
Their vision for the gameplay being online melee + shooter is what i was referring to, not some stylistic changes. Wasn't the main character basically unchanged anyway... i can't remember.
Most likely, they're sending it out to die (or not at all in America) purely because it has "Devil" in the title. To me the situation reads like there's a few within Nintendo that are keen to get this kind of 'adult oriented' title in their lineup, while a few others aren't keen at all because they're hung up on Nintendo's family friendly image. I doubt the quality of the game plays into it at all.
SatoAilDarko
Member
You should watch last year's Treehouse stream.
http://youtu.be/V9PEEu7B7s8
I really love the floating debris. It's awesome how all single-player missions also seem to have a score attack option.
OrbitalBeard
Member
I still think it's really cool how Europe and Japan get two first party-published Nintendo games during the summer and NA gets nothing. Really supplying your consumers with content there, NoA. Reggie always talks about how Wii U is full of content, after all.
thanks for that !
Remind me, what two games?
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yoshi's Wooly World and Devil's Third.
edit: nvm
wild wild rice
Member
This summer is dry as fuck in NA.
In response to complaint about the lack of info about a North American release, the guy from Nintendo Next said "do not worry about that, trust me"
Oh come on enough of this!
Can we just get some straight answers?
nckillthegrimace
Member
Maybe it's "interesting" news.
Or maybe the game's free in NA because fuck it nothing makes sense and Itagaki did it
Or maybe it's coming out in September and we've all gotten worked up over nothing.
Actually I'd retort that NoA is being bonkers and held back the info for no good reason. I have to suspect something is up, at a minimum a retailer exclusive.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah, it's either eShop exclusive, a retail exclusive, or being published by a third party like XSEED. At least the game is likely coming to NA.
Iorv3th
Member
Or they are censoring it so it doesn't ruin their family friendly image.
Hope not.
OrbitalBeard
Member
There's no way that's happening. Nintendo had no problem publishing Bayonetta 2 in NA last year.
Yeah, because they've been doing that over the last years. Like when they also funded the Ninja Gaiden III port for the Wii U launch, to censor everything.
And had no issues putting Fatal Frame 5 on Treehouse this year, which had some remarkably gruesome imagery on display, too.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Anyway, if you are making an M rated and Nintendo wants to publish your game, RUN!!
Google "thq bankruptcy" and get back to me.
sixteen-bit
Member
Worked out for Bayo 2
Embargo will be lifted next week. In response to complaint about the lack of info about a North American release, the guy from Nintendo Next said "do not worry about that, trust me
And more importantly said it's good.
The game has vanquish slide and a full fledged melee combat, so really, all I wait for is a better solo mode.
Devils Third is Frog Fractions 2
I think that nobody is still allowed to reveal the embargo expiration date for preview, I'm sure nobody is for review embargo date anyway.
but impressions should be revealed soon, so hopefully you all will hear more positive impressions than the ones gave by the rough visual of the footage shown so far.
Nintendo of America doesn't do what Nintendo of America does for Nintendo of America. Nintendo of America does what Nintendo of America does because Nintendo of America is Nintendo of America!
Triggerhappytel
Member
Somebody needs to push this in an interview with him - obviously he'll try to get away with one of his bullshit non-answers and say that he feels delaying to the end of the year is the optimum time to release etc, but someone should push him and say why Yoshi is being delayed when it's been available in other territories for months, and why release it towards the end of the year when Xenoblade Chronicles and Star Fox will be be out, when they could have released it in the quieter summer months like NoE did. And then of course there's the question why NoA aren't releasing Devil's Third at all - it's not like the console is in any kind of state to be turning down first party software at the moment.
EDIT - we need that dude who interviewed Molyneux to interview Reggie, or David Jenkins from Metro Gamecentral.
I think that the manufacturing of yarn Yoshi's is the reason behind the Yoshi delay, as somtimes happen that a game is delayed in EU because of the additional localization due (German, French, Italian)
PS: I'm not justifying NoA. LOL.
sixteen-bit
Member
maybe DT got delayed for amiibo support
How well do you think an Ivan amiibo would sell?
Ingueferroque
Banned
I feel bad for him.
Roughly as well as a Bayonetta amiibo
The thought of an Ivan amiibo popped into my head a few weeks ago, and now I legitimately want to have one. I don't even buy amiibo.
Whoa now, a Bayonetta amiibo would sell very well.
Triggerhappytel
Member
I'm pretty sure a Bayonetta Amiibo would sell really well; much better than the protagonist of Devil's Third.
That doesn't explain the Itagaki/MS split up. Their relationship was rock solid and i find it hard to believe it was only over the DOA/NG IP. Given the right budget MS can turn Valhalla into a premier first party or supported studio, they certainly need more Japanese exclusive titles.
I don't think it needs to be explained. Maybe Valhalla shopped Devil's Third to Microsoft and Microsoft didn't think it was worth the money. There are plenty of other shooters and violent games that you can get on the Xbox. It's not a niche that Microsoft really needs to cover, so it's less attractive to them than to Nintendo, who is generally ignored by the developers of those types of games. That doesn't mean that the bridges have to be burned. It just means it didn't work out this time,
Beyond that, I don't think veteran developers that leave their studios are really inching to report to management again. There's no reason to assume that anyone in Valhalla wants to be bought out and will stick around if it happens. And if Microsoft wants action games, they can go to Tecmo or Platinum or whoever and try to acquire them from there. I mean, that's exactly what they're doing with Scalebound. They don't have to buy a studio to get those kinds of games.
ALLseeingEYE
Member
I would love to see Sony or MS fund Valhalla, and for them to do a full-scale AAA game where dev isn't hindered by huge bottlenecks. Itagaki and crew must return to the action genre. If Devil's third turns out to be great though, it could also be cool to see it get an art direction overhaul and deeper combat.
Also, really relieved to hear an embargo on (NA?) info is about to lift. Can't wait to see more of this.
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
Yep, game comes out next month !
What are the bottlenecks?
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
I don't get it.