DevilRising on 23 July 2013
| Vinniegambini said: Correction Nintendo owns Monolith Soft - Intelligent Systems is financially independent from Nintendo much like Hals Laboratory :) |
Yes, that is technically correct. However, while "financially independant", they make ALL of their software for Nintendo systems, making them effectively first party developers. Intelligent Systems specifically was created to make Fire Emblem, and to help with NES/Famicom development, and has always been considered an "internal development studio". And HAL hasn't made games for non-Nintendo consoles since the MSX days, with the exception of a couple Eggerland/Lolo games for Windows in the mid-90s. But the point is, all three are pretty much exclusively Nintendo developers.
