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>Camelot originally planned to create a single title instead of a series, and in the extremely early stages of their project they had created a game design document for the one Golden Sun game to be on the Nintendo 64 console. When it became apparent the N64 was to be superseded by the Nintendo GameCube, Camelot shifted their focus to making a game on the handheld Game Boy Advance.

There was no competition on the N64, and since it was snes's successor everybody was hungry for jrpgs. Why didn't they release it anyway?

>> No.5402084

....Golden Sun came out in late 2001

a design document does not mean any development was done. the GBA game was awesome. it was probably the right call.

>> No.5402104

>>5402076
Because they were in pre-production at the end of the N64 lifespan. Might have been cool if they moved to GC, but whatever they were great games anyway

>> No.5402119

>>5402076
>There was no competition on the N64, and since it was snes's successor everybody was hungry for jrpgs. Why didn't they release it anyway?

plenty of late in development N64 games got moved to later consoles...or later ports that became much more widespread

>Animal Crossing
>Cubivore
>Doshin
>Eternal Darkness
>Resident Evil 0
>Mother 3 (GBA)
>Fire Emblem (GBA)

Am I forgetting any others?

>> No.5402124

>>5402076
They probably realized how derivative and trashy it was so they figured it would go better on GBA where there was a lot of other shovelware.

>> No.5402140

It was a pretty early GBA title so it didn't have a lot of competition on that front either, at least for a few years

>> No.5402274
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5402274

>>5402124
That wasn't an issue for pic related tho.

>>5402140
Pokemon was quite the competition I'd say.

>> No.5402286

>>5402119
>64DD and N64 are the same console
>famicom and NES aren't
>fds and famicom aren't
>genesis and sega cd aren't
>genesis and 32x aren't

>> No.5402791

>>5402274
Pokemon and traditional JRPGs don't really scratch the same itch

>> No.5402879

>>5402286
All those other consoles came out though

>> No.5404835

they are the devs of the Shining series or I'm thinking someone else?

>> No.5405451

>>5404835
They are, Nintendo basically drained them of all their creativity.

>> No.5405456

>>5405451
I actually enjoyed their Mario Golf games on N64 and GBC, but never played any of their other games.

>> No.5405470

Devs just did not want to make RPGs for the N64 once they saw what they had to work with. Mother 3, FF7 both got aborted. Do you blame them? N64 was goofy as fuck.