Comments on: Xenoblade Chronicles X: Director of Wii U Exclusive JRPG Shares His Thoughts On The Criticism https://gamingbolt.com/xenoblade-chronicles-x-director-of-wii-u-exclusive-jrpg-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-criticism Get a Bolt of Gaming Now! Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kaihaku https://gamingbolt.com/xenoblade-chronicles-x-director-of-wii-u-exclusive-jrpg-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-criticism#comment-264437 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=237172#comment-264437 “This is, interestingly enough, the first explicit admission that any Nintendo developer has made about the negative fallout of having joined the HD development era late.”

I remember others but let’s start with… “When it comes to the scale of software development, Wii U with HD graphics requires about twice the human resources than before. Please allow me to explain that we may have underestimated the scale of this change and as a result, the overall software development took more time than originally anticipated just as we tried to polish the software at the completion phase of development. ” -Shigeru Miyamoto, 73rd Annual General Shareholders Meeting

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