Snoorlax said:
Other games like Mario Sports & Party games get made by mostly western studios (owned by Ninty) even the original Star Fox + Adventures + Command and Luigis Mansion 2 were all or in collaboration made by/with western folks. It's not so much of bias, its just the way it is. Look at Sony, do you think they want to lose the fans of their homeland? because theyre so biased against Japansese devs? No Sony just has more luck and does better bussiness with western studios and Nintendo with Japanese studios. Ninty owns just as much Japanese studios as they own Western but i agree that they usually prefer their Japanese side, like Sony their western side. |
Other than Retro, who do Nintendo own that are based in the West? As far as I can tell, the only other game dev is NST/NTD in Redmond. They have a group in Paris, but they're focussed on pure R&D (formerly mobi clip) rather than game development.
Even amongst the list of game dev partners, I can't see many that are based outside of Japan.
