How many gaming studios do Ninty, Sony, and MS have individually?

[patjuan32]

couchmonkey said:

melbye said:
If we believe Wikipedia NINTENDO:
First Party
Brownie Brown
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development(Divided into 6 development teams)
Intelligent Systems
Monolith Soft
NST
Retro Studios
SPD

Second Party:
AlphaDream
Ambrella
Ape
Camelot Software
Game Freak
Genius
HAL
Nd Cube
Noise
skip Ltd

I don't think Nintendo has any actual financial stake in Camelot, which is what I'd say is the requirement to be "second party". I'm doubtful on a couple of others there as well, like Skip, but I can't be arsed to research all of this. :)

Edit: Game Freak and HAL definitely do belong on the list, and from what I've read, so does AlphaDream.

IGN lists Camelot as a partner to Nintendo. This may mean funding or something else entirely. But they do only make console games for Nintendo's platforms. Therefore it seems like they are a second party studio.

Skip LTD is a second party studio that is funded by Nintendo.

Genuis is short for Genius Sonority, they made the Pokemon Stadium games for the Gamecube and the Wii.

The only studio that I know of that is not listed is NEAD Tokoyo. They developed Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and Mario Galaxy.

Game Designer's Studio was a subsidiary of Square and funded by Nintendo but was absorbed into Square when they merged with Enix. They developed Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles for the Gamecube.