noname2200 on 28 November 2012
If by that you mean "let them develop the game without Nintendo directing" then the answer is "no." Nintendo regularly farms out many of its franchises, even the big ones, but those teams answer to someone at Nintendo. Even Retro Studios continues to get lots of oversight and direction from NCL. Everything that's in Other M is there because Sakamoto either wanted it from the get go, or signed off on it.
