Pikmin Director Working on New Nintendo IP

[Michael Epstein]

Pikmin Director Working on New Nintendo IP

Who says Nintendo isn't interested in creating new franchises?

It sounds like Pikmin director Masamichi Abe may be working on a new IP for Nintendo, according to a tweet from a Japanese developer.

Abe's project has been brought to light through a tweet [https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/statuses/405170688169742336] from Tekken creator Katsuhiro Harada. Why would Harada know anything about Abe's work? The two worked together on Tekken and Tekken 2 during Abe's pre-Nintendo days.

Responding to a fan asking if Abe had retired, Harada wrote: "He is in Nintendo Kyoto now. Working on some Nintendo original title."

In addition to his work on Pikmin and Pikmin 2, Abe helped develop a litany of games at Nintendo, including Metroid Prime: Hunters and Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again.

Source: Polygon [https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/statuses/405170688169742336]

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[Renegade-pizza]

And in other news: Hell froze over. FOX news is reporting news and women no longer find me completely irresistible...

Looks like a certain British/Australian reviewer will have change his tune.

 

[Mr. Omega]

I do love how titles on the eShop like HarmoKnight, Pushmo and Dillion's Rolling Western, along with the titles they published like X don't exist or aren't ACTUALLY a new IP from Nintendo for some arbitrary reason.

Really, that's the heart of the entire "Nintendo doesn't make new IPs" argument: "That doesn't count!"

As for the news itself, looking forward to it. Not really much more to say about it. "It exists" doesn't really leave much room to comment on.

 

[SinisterGehe]

And in other news: Hell froze over. FOX news is reporting news and women no longer find me completely irresistible...

Looks like a certain British/Australian reviewer will have change his tune.

You know he will find a way to say "Well it isn't anything that they haven't tried already". Unless it is FPS then nintendo has already tried it in some way. Dear gameboard named reviewer is a word genius and being of pure cynicalness (? is that a word?) that he finds a way to take the joy out of this, stomp on your kitten, destroy your life long hopes and dreams and even make you fat somehow.

I wonder was the fact that where I live winter colds started all the sudden and harshly. Should I relocate to my doomsday bunker?

 

[Roxas1359]

What about the news in July that Miyamoto was working on a new IP?
Is it still on or was already denied or the title launched and it was a minor one?

Perhaps Miyamoto just delegated the task to Masamichi Abe, mainly since Miyamoto has a lot of responsibilities nowadays and generally doesn't work on the games at Nintendo anymore. Miyamoto gives advice and suggestions nowadays more than actually working on the games himself.

OT: Well hopefully it'll be nice and will gain appeal, mainly because I'd rather have new IPs sprinkled in every once and a while then relying on some of the same ones. Now if we could just get that F-Zero game Miyamoto, hell even if it were and HD remake of GX I'd eat that up the second it hit selves! >.<