@sc: Nintendo makes their games, they don't "own" studios save for the second party ones. Going by your definition, Nintendo would only be an impersonal entity. If they don't make their games, then they don't make their consoles either. Nintendo is a company that makes both HW and SW. Nintendo doesn't own the studios that make HW and SW, they make it themselves.
These studios are part of Nintendo and they will die if Nintendo dies, there's no such thing as a studio made and owned by company, but which products aren't made by the company. Nintendo develops games.
But I guess we are arguing over a technicism, which is not worth arguing about. I get your point though, but I disagree with how you interpret this.
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