| DélioPT said: Shouldn't we count out 2nd party games, remasters, games Nintendo paid for (Lego City, Bayonetta 2, for example) and collaborations and just count the games that were actually developed by Nintendo itself - i.e., NoJ? |
The Nintendo of 2016 is highly diversified. They combine their internal staff with outsourced staff at other companies to make their video games a reality.
For example, Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes which you would normally classify as "actually developed by Nintendo itself" because it's a Zelda game was actually developed by a combination of four studios: the Zelda team at Nintendo EPD, Grezzo Co., Ltd., SRD Co., Ltd., and 1-UP Studio Inc.
Even Mario Kart 8 was made as a collaboration of Nintendo EAD and Bandai Namco Studios Inc.
And the games that you would consider "2nd party games" or "outsourced" always have Nintendo internal staff working on them as a collaboration. They don't just exist in isolation apart from Nintendo....without Nintendo, they wouldn't be a reality.
So you can't really make that distinction anymore. First-party games are games that are published by Nintendo. Everything is SO messy nowadays that if you try to delineate any further than that you lead to arbitrary classifications that just don't make any sense.
