Nintendo hasn’t announced which of its many development studios or partners is making Princess Peach: Showtime, this spring’s biggest new Nintendo Switch game, and doesn’t seem likely to before it debuts later this month.
“The development team will be credited in the game credits,” a Nintendo spokesperson simply told me today when I enquired which developer had made the game.
There’s no reason why Nintendo to say who has made the game, of course, but fans have said it feels odd that the answer remains a mystery, just a few weeks away from Princess Peach: Showtime!’s 22nd March debut, after press have already played a preview build of the game, and following the launch of this week’s public demo.
Datamined files from that demo point to Kirby’s Epic Yarn and Yoshi’s Crafted World developer Good-Feel being behind Princess Peach: Showtime – something Nintendo itself could not confirm when asked today. Founded in Japan in 2005, Good-Feel has developed exclusively for Nintendo hardware, and has regularly worked on the company’s main franchises.