| jarrod said: But, they want to make Professor Layton, Inazuma Eleven and Ninokuni. They've already built up brand equity, both in their company and in their games, they have amazing relationships with Nintendo and Sqaure Enix, they have a state of the art HQ, a brand new US office... sometimes "cashing out" doesn't make sense, especially when you're growing as fast as a company like Level-5. I do agree they're hitting some franchise fatigue with BOTH Layton and Inazuma at home (annual sequels will do that), but they're bringing in more new IPs like Ninokuni, Little Battlers and Fantasy Life, which will probably help offset that. Layton's also big as ever outside Japan (thanks to Nintendo), and there's no doubt Inazuma will be equally huge when it hits Europe. And as for Microsoft offering $25B for Nintendo, it's in Dean Takahashi's book "Opening the Xbox". Here's a web reference to it. edit: also, looking at Uncharted 1-2's credits, ND had to use a contracted studio for mocap (House of Moves). So nope, they don't have their own. |
Quantic Dream have their own Mo-cap studio. They're not exactly a huge successful studio.
Also Sony have their own mo-cap studio at their San Diego studio. The second largest in north america apparently.
