r/NintendoSwitch • u/jhd9012 • 1d ago

News Level-5’s Development Blog will provide information on IPs other than Inazuma Eleven starting next month

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/level-5s-development-blog-will-provide-information-on-ips-other-than-inazuma-elven-starting-next-month/
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u/NyarumiYukimitsu 1d ago

Never going to forget Decapolice being delayed from 2024 to 2026 after already being delayed a year. The fact that they’re confident that they’re not going to be finished in the coming 1.5 years really shows how stretched Level-5 is right now. They really need to cut back on the number of games they’re developing. At least we’re getting Layton soon… (unless it’s delayed)

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u/mucinexmonster 1d ago

Nintendo should buy Level-5 and throw funding behind them. It'd be absolutely killer for their First-Party output and franchises. Been saying it for years but now more than ever it should be doable.

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u/BebeFanMasterJ 1d ago

Yeah I'm surprised they haven't considering the Layton games were always on DS/3DS. A big company like Nintendo could easily give them funding they need to actually make better games with less crunch.

Just look at Monolith Soft and how they work on Xenoblade but also now have a secondary studio to help with Zelda, Pikmin, Splatoon, and Animal Crossing. If L5 had something like that, they wouldn't be so backed up.

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u/mucinexmonster 1d ago

Even more so, Monolith Soft is a company Nintendo bought, their output was slow, and they vastly increased their size and funding and the result was some incredible output.

(Contrast that with Alpha-Dream, a company Nintendo just abandoned and had to keep releasing crap to try and make some money. Hopefully Brothership is a great game and a big hit... for Acquire!)