Next Level Games is now a Official Nintendo Second Party Developer

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osed125 said:

padib said:

osed125 said:

Haven't heard of them before Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon

What other games have they made?

They made punch out!! for Wii and Mario Strikers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Level_Games

Never played Punch out for the Wii so I can't comment on that one. But Mario Strikers was freaking amazing! the other tittles they made look very lackluster though.

 They are a good studio as long as they work closely with nintendo (same history as Retro). The reason they are not looking elsewhere is that they said they are happy with the output when working with nintendo (And obviously royalties must be high as well) so there is no need to look anywhere else.

They still are an independent studio, and probably that the best thing for both Nintendo and NLG. Iwata has stated multiple times that buying studios and then losing the people behind the studio is not a good practice for Nintendo.