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Jordan Middler Hints At A Return From Ape Escape (And Other Older Sony IPs) At VGC Podcast

Jordan Middler is a journalist from VGC.

https://youtu.be/5Hc3ItMzta4?si=uYI3wjphshFHExiM&t=2090

>They need to need to get that little ape back. That little ape and the rest of the little apes. It can't just be one ape cuz it'd be a boring game if you were collecting one ape. But um I was talking about this with Chris. Chris brought up Wipe Out. I I'd love a new Wipeout, man. That Wipe Out Omega they did on PS4. What a game, man. A new Wipeout would be great.

>I assume they will do another Ghost of but there is a ground swell of people that want Infamous um under the impression that there is an infamous thing happening somewhere else in PlayStation at the minute, not tied to them.

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Not the first time he mentioned they working on a Ape Escape game. He said it before in a podcast with Jeff Gerstmann

https://youtu.be/gpumkYAX15A?si=1g37wHwhmlu3vQnD&t=4182

> They'll announce that Ape escape they're making.

>Like, do you think they pull the pin on like, okay, here's Spider-Man 3, here's Uncharted coming back, which is very likely to happen.
Here is the catalog titles. Here's Ape Escape. Like do you think they need to set out the next couple of years or do they just go a little kind of quieter with >> I think it would it would be too early to talk ape escape uh and like specifically I think um but but I do think and I think some of those efforts if they are going to really go in that direction which is that's I kind of have a gut feeling combined with some information that that when I connect the dots.

u/AngieK22 — 6 days ago

Nintendo R&D expenses up over 23% from last fiscal year, possibly working on new hardware?

The last time Nintendo R&D expenses had a big jump of 20% or more, like the jump from 2023 to 2024, they released new hardware the following year.

“Selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A expenses) increased by 28.3%
year-on-year to 548.8 billion yen, due to a rise in advertising expenses associated
mainly with the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 **as well as a rise in R&D expenses.**
However, with the large growth in sales, the ratio of SG&A expenses to sales
declined by 13.0 points to 23.7%.”

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https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2026/260508\_5e.pdf

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