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The_Yoda on 18 March 2015
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zorg1000 said:
The_Yoda said:
daredevil.shark said:

Megaton. But its expected. Nintendo wants to be in control whatever is produced using their IPs.

After Cdi Zelda can you blame them?


Well its not like Nintendo hasn't outsourced their ip to other developers other than that. Capcom developed Zelda titles for Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance, Sega developed F-Zero on Gamecube, Namco developed Star Fox on Gamecube and Heavily assisted on the most recent Smash Bros, Koei-Tecmo was able to make two crossover games based on Nintendo ip, Pokemon Conquest & Hyrule Warriors so Nintendo does have a pretty good history of lending out their ip.

I just think that Nintendo wants to lay the groundwork on the direction they want their games to take for mobile. Once they have built a foundation and created a successful formula for mobile games then they will feel more comfortable letting other developers work on their games.

If I'm not mistaken everything you listed is post CDi.  I could be wrong but it seemed like with Phillips it was a hands off licensing deal,  Since then I think they have kept a closer eye on their IP when in the hands of others.