The developer behind multiple Mario sports titles and Golden Sun is working on a new online golf game in Japan…for PCs.
For years Camelot Software Planning has left its fans in the dark about their next project. The general consensus among Nintendo fans has been that they are working on a Wii entry to the Golden Sun series. After all, they posted a job opening for a programmer, citing the Revolution as a target platform, and the Takahashi brothers have expressed interest in bringing the series to a more versatile platform.
Today Camelot and publisher Eleven-Up revealed a massively multiplayer online golf game for PC gamers in Japan titled I Love Golf!, scheduled for release later this year. This will be the first Camelot game without Nintendo as its publisher since Mario Golf on the N64 in 1999.
Camelot has always been a third party developer for Nintendo. Although this announcement is unexpected, it does not necessarily indicate a falling out between the two companies. Camelot has a long history of golf games, and Nintendo may have been reluctant to fund and support a massively multiplayer online game early in Wii's life—especially with its own Wii Sports set for launch. Camelot may still have a Wii or DS project in the works; given Camelot's small size, though, such a game likely would not be released anytime soon.