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Nihon Falcom President: Trails Series “About 80-90% Complete”

Nihon Falcom President: Trails Series “About 80-90% Complete”

In an interview with GameSpot, Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo revealed that the Trails series, which began in 2004 as an offshoot of the larger The Legend of Heroes series, will soon be discontinued. “In fact, the series has progressed to the point where its main story is about 80-90% complete. And so, while there ...

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Nintendo’s president admits that game development now takes longer as hardware advances

Nintendo’s president admits that game development now takes longer as hardware advances

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa explained to investors that games now require more time and more resources to develop and that this affects development times. However, he says that to fix this, the Kyoto-based company is “continually expanding our development resources and making the necessary investments.” Tetsuya Takahashi chimed in and told them that “as hardware ...

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Nintendo president says longer game development cycles are ‘inevitable’

Nintendo president says longer game development cycles are ‘inevitable’

Image: Nintendo Games just keep getting bigger, and if you’re wondering how Nintendo feels about longer development cycles, the company’s president thinks it’s “inevitable.” In a recent shareholder Q&A, Shuntaro Furukawa mentioned that game development today is “more time-consuming, complex and advanced” and to cope with this, Nintendo must constantly expand its “development resources” and ...

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David Burke steps down as vice president

David Burke steps down as vice president

The person responsible for the recent successes of Android, in addition to the key products of this ecosystem, has publicly announced that he is leaving his position: David Burke leaves his post as vice president of engineering at Google. Of course, David will remain within Alphabet. Among all of Alphabet’s products, the Google search engine ...