I work at a completely non-gaming company who cross paths with various folks at Nintendo from an affiliate marketing perspective. One of them I’m quite friendly with. This person works closely with Biz Dev and is privy to a fair bit of Nintendo’s future strat planning.
Anyhow, we were grabbing a few overpriced beers and she disclosed a few little tidbits:
- MM3 is in development and has been for over a year
- MM3 does not have a formal platform yet; my source suggested it may target Nintendo’s next generation device
- I questioned the reasoning for this, and was told it’s not due to performance (they have a 3D builder working well on switch, although very alpha). It’s more than the corp side haven’t made a call on their next release yet.
- MM3 will feature the ability to build 2D environments within 3D, much like we saw in Odyssey
- You’ll be able to create entire multi-level games with MM3- think, story, levels, collection of moons/stars/whatever etc.
- 3 times bigger asset library when compared to MM2, principally due to all of the Odyssey assets available
- A number of the MM3 devs have been “borrowed” for the Odyssey sequel project as Nintendo wants to release that first and it was struggling behind schedule a little. Unknown impact on MM3 progression.
That’s it for now folks.
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