sc94597 on 24 November 2009
| trestres said: @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. |
What I mean is, in house teams as well as those owned through purchase are the ones recognized as developing a game. This isn't the case for Nintendo as a whole. Retro Studios, for example, has nothing to do with a Mario game, yet they are still part of the whole picture called Nintendo. So, I basically mean, that "Nintendo" doesn't develop these games, but more of individual teams in Nintendo.
