Bodhesatva said:
They do have names... for example, the guys who originally made Metroid are/were known as "Nintendo R&D team 1." The easiest way to explain it is this: Sony can sell off Team Ico without any fancy paper work, as it's just a separate company that they happen to own. If Nintendo wanted to sell off the Metroid devs, they couldn't, at least easily. It's a part of their company. I suppose it would technically be possible to portion of a piece of your company, but it would be messy. They'd first have to legally separate the division from their corporate holdings, and then they could sell it. Put it this way: selling the Metroid devs would be like selling a kidney. Selling Team Ico would be like selling a diamond you are holding in your hand. It's technically possible to sell both, but the kidney is part of you, and it's a lot messier to get that on the market :p From a Wikipedia article: "Super Metroid (スーパーメトロイド Sūpā Metoroido?) is an adventure video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. Super Metroid is the third installment in the Metroid series of video games. With its 24-megabit cartridge size, it was the largest game available for the console at the time of its release.[1]" You can find the full article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_metroid
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Is Team Ico actually a formal company or is it just informal name for a group of people working with Fumito Ueda? I've also heard the group called "Internal Production Studio 1" or something like that. That sounds a lot like "Nintendo R&D Team 1". From what I've read, it seems like Fumito Ueda was hired by Sony (presumably because they saw his talent), and then he was given a group of people to help develop Ico with him.
