the_dengle on 26 June 2015
| AlfredoTurkey said: There is a difference in being "a part of Nintendo" and being... Nintendo. I don't know why people have such a hard time differentiating between the two. Rare, for instance, wasn't even first party lol. |
Well yes, the difference between a part and a whole is that the parts make up the whole. Monolith Soft and Retro are a part of Nintendo just as EAD and Intelligent Systems are a part of Nintendo.
My point in bringing up Rare was that they developed loads of games for Nintendo back in the NES/SNES days. Nintendo also had partners and satellites like Hal Labs and GameFreak making games even back in the 80s-90s. So my answer to your original question, "Is it me, or does Nintendo make less of their own games than they did during the NES/SNES days?" was that it is you. Even back in the NES/SNES days many of the games Nintendo published were developed by external studios.
