Has Monolith surpassed Retro Studio as new Nintendo elite studio?

[Alkibiádēs]

TheBraveGallade said:

Alkibiádēs said:

Why is that even relevant? So the oldest development studio automatically wins?

Retro Studios was formed from former Iguana Entertainment employees, who are best known for the classic Turok series. 

Intelligent Systems is a decent developer with a very high output, but that comes at a cost as they've developed quite a few mediocre and even down right terrible games: 

- Game & Wario (terrible)

- Paper Mario Sticker Star (terrible)

- Paper Mario: Color Splash (mediocre)

- Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. (terrible)

Code name steam is great.

 

Aanyways, the fact is that they've created 3 beloved  ninty IPs fromscratch

 for the paper mario situation... not really thier fault that the director for PM64 and TTYD wanted to do something else. (He's currently busy with the fairly sucessful, if japan only, fire emblem TCG. My point is that they've made for more of an impact in ninty than either rare or monolyth, ESPECIALLY in japan. More so since the prime series actually turned off fans in japan.

Nintendo is a global company, not Japan only. 

Metroid Prime is the best selling Metroid game, so they must have done something right. Donkey Kong Country: Returns is also the best selling non-bundled Donkey Kong Country game.