Sempuukyaku said:
RVDondaPC said:
I'm not a big Nintendo fan so I dont know certain things about them since I don't follow their games much but I was just wondering about their development process. With Sony their studios are very distinct. You know a game is a naughty dog game, a team ICO game, Santa Monica Studios game, etc. But with Nintendo it seems that every game is just mentioned as a nintendo developed game not a distinct studio within Nintendo. So my question is do they have distinct studios or are they just one giant studio that has many projects and people move around from project to project?
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Nintendo has distinct studios AND internal divisions. Not to mention their second-party studios who develop exclusively for Nintendo platforms.
Internal divisions:
EAD (Entertainment Analysis and Development)
EAD 1, EAD 2, EAD 3 , EAD 4, EAD Tokyo
SPD (Software Planning and Development)
SPD1, SPD2, SPD3
SDD (Software Design and Development)
NSD (Network Service Development)
NST (Nintendo Software Technology)
Development Studios:
Retro Studios
ND Cube
Project Sora
Brownie Brown
Monolith Soft
Second-Party studios:
Intelligent Systems
HAL Laboratory
The Pokemon Company
Creatures Inc.
iQue Ltd.
The internal divisions are the rockstars of the company. They do the Marios, Zeldas, Wii Fits, Wii Sports, etc etc. The second party studios do awesome stuff like Pokemon, Smash Bros, Kirby, etc. The first party studios are ok. Retro is AWESOME, and Project Sora has potential to be awesome. Also Brownie Brown has done some cool stuff like Professor Layton.
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