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BlkPaladin on 25 July 2012
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theprof00 said:
shakarak said:
On a different but related note. Nintendo has been outsourcing some of their trusted brands like Smash bros, Metroid, etc... to trusted third party developers. Is this a direct result of Nintendo closing up development studios or consolidating them to save money? Anybody have any info about Nintendo consolidating/closing studios?

mmmm I'm pretty sure they've been buying up dev studios, not shuttering them.


Not sure if they have been buying any more. But I do know they have been hiring developers to help with the Wii U development. Project Sora was closed down, but it seems development teams with the Project monkier are only made to finish a certin project then get disbanded. The parent studio Sora Ltd, is still going. The lending out liscense is a practice they started to improve third party relations starting with Capcom a while ago. (Because they know it was impossible to get into a bidding war for exclusive content with Microsoft and Sony) When Capcom was having fincial proplem Nintendo lent them Zelda for a run of games that help the publisher out quite a bit. They got a few games from Capcom from the deal. (Though it turned to a fiasco.) The biggest being RE4