Games Inbox: Nintendo as the best game developer, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 ranking, and Square Enix for sale
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Keeping the crown With Xenoblade Chronicles 3 reviewing better than I expected it looks like Nintendo is back to its usual place at the top of Metacritic. Everyone knows they were badly affected by the pandemic and they haven’t really had anything that big since Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Their 2022 line-up is good though and I fully expect both Splatoon 3 and Bayonetta 3 to review very well (if people can get over so many 3s all at once!).
Since things have been quiet for years now, with even Sony not having had anything for a while now, I wonder if Nintendo is still the easy nomination for best developer that they used to be? It’s hard to say with nobody running at full steam at the moment but I think they are, based on not just quality but variety.
Sony games all tend to be very similar in gameplay style and tone but Nintendo can go from sports games to silly platformers to serious dramas and I don’t think there’s anyone else like that in gaming. I’m not even sure who would be second to them. If it’s not Sony then who? Rockstar? BioWare? Capcom? They all put out great stuff but so much of it is so similar.
FromSoftware are the current media darlings, and for very good reasons, but I don’t think even they would pretend that variety is what they’re good at. So I do think Nintendo still clinch it, they’ve put out so many great games in so many different genres over the years that it would take something very special to beat them. Maybe Microsoft with all their new companies? I don’t know, would anyone seriously
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