| Turkish said: Sorry but none of those games are "big" and none of them are hardcore. Xenoblade Chronicles is not developped by Nintendo. I just searched for a game like Captain Rainbow and it looks like the game is only released in Japan. What do you mean by "Wii series"? Wii sports games? These are not hardcore games and neither are Brain Training games. I'm talking about games like Metroid, Starfox, FZero.
Sigh, I knew someone would give me the list of Nintendo IPs from this gen like Brain Training or Wii sports. |
If Starfox or FZero had been new IPs this gen, people would have called them "casual", too. This is why I so hate people describing games as "casual" or "hardcore" - it just doesn't make any sense. People use the terms, practically, as a way to define "popular amongst the internet gaming community" and "unpopular amongst the internet gaming community, but not amongst the mainstream".
Xenoblade Chronicles is VERY MUCH developed by Nintendo. It was made by Monolith Soft, which is owned by Nintendo, and therefore it was made by Nintendo, just as much as Metroid Prime was made by Nintendo. You can argue much more reasonably when it comes to The Last Story and Pandora's Tower, as they were developed by non-first-party studios. As far as I can tell, Pandora's Tower was overseen by Nintendo, and thus is still a Nintendo IP (not certain, though). With The Last Story, it's much harder to tell - it's possible that Nintendo own the IP, but it's just as possible that it remains with Sakaguchi.
Just to demonstrate that Nintendo IPs don't have to be developed internally... Pokemon is made by Gamefreak, which is not owned by Nintendo. Pokemon itself is owned by Nintendo, however, and Nintendo oversees development.
If you want a full list of Nintendo IPs, I already posted a link to a rather extensive list, reaching all the way back to 2000, that I posted in a different thread a little over a week ago. Check it out, it's fairly extensive (although there are likely to be a few errors along the way).
