{"id":111556,"date":"2020-04-14T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/the_reason_why_nintendos_games_are_so_good_devs_are_given_as_much_time_as_they_need"},"modified":"2020-04-14T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:15:00","slug":"the-reason-why-nintendos-games-are-so-good-devs-are-given-as-much-time-as-they-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/14\/the-reason-why-nintendos-games-are-so-good-devs-are-given-as-much-time-as-they-need\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reason Why Nintendo&#8217;s Games Are So Good? Devs Are Given &#8220;As Much Time As They Need&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d45064cf4e3cf\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d45064cf4e3cf\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Animal Crossing\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d45064cf4e3cf\/animal-crossing.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d45064cf4e3cf\/animal-crossing.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Animal Crossing\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If you look back on the best video games of all time, Nintendo is a name which crops up several times over. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_mario_64\">Super Mario 64<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/legend_of_zelda_ocarina_of_time\">Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\"><strong>Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong><\/a> are just three of many Nintendo titles which have had praise heaped upon them over the decades. Nintendo as a company seems to &#8216;get&#8217; what makes a brilliant video game, and while much of that is down to talent and knowledge, it has as much to do with time, according to a programmer within the Japanese giant.<\/p>\n<p>The developer \u2013 who asked not to be identified because he\u2019s not authorised to comment publicly on such matters \u2013 spoke to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-14\/nintendo-s-animal-crossing-is-the-biggest-hit-of-the-lockdown?utm_source=url_link\">Bloomberg&#8217;s<\/a> Takashi Mochizuki and Yuki Furukawa about the recent success of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong>. Nintendo developers, it is claimed, &#8220;are allowed as much time as they need to be satisfied with the quality of the game before its release&#8221; and that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_finally_shown_off_for_nintendo_switch_delayed_to_2020\">additional time<\/a> spent on New Horizons means that by mistake rather than design, it has become the perfect video game with which to escape the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there have been exceptions to this rule over the years \u2013 it&#8217;s not like every single game to come out of Nintendo over the years has been 100% perfect \u2013 but it does seem to be the case that the Kyoto giant is more relaxed about delaying a game than some of its rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago, when asked why the launch of the N64 was delayed by three months, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/gamesblog\/2012\/apr\/27\/shigeru-miyamoto-rushed-game-forever-bad\">Shigeru Miyamoto<\/a> said: &#8220;a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.&#8221; It would seem that even after all this time, those words still ring true in the offices of Nintendo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look back on the best video games of all time, Nintendo is a name which crops up several times over. Super Mario 64, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Zelda: Breath of the Wild are just three of many Nintendo titles which have had praise heaped upon them over the decades. Nintendo as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}