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Nintendo Announces New Development Studio
Sora will be headed up by Masahiro Sakurai, the lead designer of Super Smash Bros Brawl and the man behind Nintendo's Kirby.
According to a translation from news site Andriasang, the Nintendo subsidiary is located in Tokyo's Idabashi district, and had officially formed on January 22. Reports claim that the studio will have a group of thirty, and the capital of just over $2 million, of which Nintendo has provided around 72 percent of that sum.
Sora's new website states that "the thoughts of game designer Masahiro Sakurai and Nintendo have become one, and a new project has started. In order to expand what can be offered to the world through games, we will have Nintendo's full cooperation and make something that Nintendo could not do on its own.”
In regards to Project Sora's new title, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says it will not be a Smash Bros game, but "a new experiment, both for Mr. Sakurai and for Nintendo."
“We've started a special project,” adds Sakurai. “We're not sure how it will sell or if it will be accepted. Our goal is not just to make a single game. We can promise that you'll be able to experience something different.”
The development outfit is currently hiring, though it is unclear if this is to fill the developer's proposed thirty-man capacity or to spread it outwards.
Edge reported last week that Nintendo had spent some $141 million on a 40K-square-meter lot that will be home to a new R&D facility. It is not precisely clear if the Idabashi studio is the outcome of that investment.
Neither Nintendo or Sora clarified which platform the new studio will be working on.
Source: Andriasang
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Personally I can't wait. The formation of a new studio is a breathe of fresh air and definatley something to be optomistic about inlight of recent events.
When it comes to creativity and originality Nintendo hold all the cards and this new project will hopefully diliver on that front. Although Kirby isnt quite the flagship that Sakurai would have hoped for, theres no denying that hes got potential and furthermore the mind to make things happen.
Although Brawl was just a fighting game every inch of it said something else. The level of depth and detail, its granduer and scale, everything about the game was epic!
If Sakurai can apply that level of thought and design to this new project then Wii (or DS, hope its the Wii) owners are in for quite a treat.
Oh shit, i smell another Project Reality and we all know how that turned out!
More like nintendo steal ideas from pc gaming like motion control then tell every one you created it.
But... Sora isn't new... They existed even before Brawl was developed! And were then already helmed by Sakurai. If I recall correctly, they were the developers behind Baten Kaitos before doing Brawl.
Correct, yet Project Sora is a new formation of that group, with new staff, a new funding scheme, and most importantly, a new title in development.
Ah, ok! Thanks for clearing that up.