The Game Awards 2015 Best Developer and GOTY.

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Teeqoz said:

Going further, can you consider "Nintendo" a developer? They are a publisher. They have several development teams. It's not like any single of those development teams have released more than one game this year.

To me it seems unfair to compare the combined software output of several inhouse development teams a publisher owns, to the output of single teams from other publishers.

I do consider a studio that is owned by Nintendo, like Retro or Monolith, as part of a Nintendo internal studio.They after all belong to Nintendo.I see Monolith and retro names more of a teams name, rather than a "separate" studio.And I think its fair.The developer award is meant to see who has the better input/quality throught the year, no matter the size.Its not meant to be "fair".