Anyone else thinking that they're going to rename the new studio from GM:Next to GM:Switch to match Nintendo's naming scheme?
Lol!
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Oh, but just in case you're serious and would like real replies: I don't believe so at this point. They were code-naming this "GM: Next" before the WiiU even happened, let alone "Nintendo NX." I'm just
sure that a YYG employee said (just this year?) that this would not merely be called "GM: Studio 2," but between the flood of "Not in 1.x timeframe" Mantis resolutions and all this teaser marketing with "2" (including
@Mike pondering on Twitter some days ago why all these squirrels come in 2s
~wink~), I'm inclined to believe it'll still be called GM: Studio 2.x after all.
I could be wrong, and no big deal if "GMS2" is even kind of code-namey at this point, but the fact that
@Nocturne attached that video to the abbreviation "GMS2" on Twitter the other day (which is the only reason I finally looked at all this #Time2MeetYourMaker stuff -- like at least one other person, I just thought it was advertising a game, and that particular hashtag didn't particularly interest me -- ) further instills GameMaker: Studio 2.x as the most probable final name.
Furthermore, I'm guessing (without doing any empirical market research obviously) that GameMaker: Switch would leave a poor taste in many people's mouths for believing YYG needlessly mimicked N in poor taste -- and that YYG wouldn't touch that with a ten-foot pole outside of joking. The name by itself wouldn't make me drop interest, and it'd be funny if it actually pertained pretty well to the unseen IDE, but I'm just saying I'll be seriously
shocked (probably with twinges of disappointment) if YYG announces its new official name is GM: Switch. (Otoh, twinges of excitement and curiosity if it's because it's somehow intricately linked to N's Switch. YYG becomes Nintendo's out-of-the-blue partner to port games to many targets? That .. that would be
different, and wild, to say the least. I don't at this time believe it's the case, but I'd be
curious at any rate if it turned out so, ha ha ha ha.)
Regards,
Bob $:^ b