I'm not a big Nintendo fan so I dont know certain things about them since I don't follow their games much but I was just wondering about their development process. With Sony their studios are very distinct. You know a game is a naughty dog game, a team ICO game, Santa Monica Studios game, etc. But with Nintendo it seems that every game is just mentioned as a nintendo developed game not a distinct studio within Nintendo. So my question is do they have distinct studios or are they just one giant studio that has many projects and people move around from project to project? 

The have next level games, that created Punch Out and Mario Strikers. Uhm HAL Laboratories. i think thats it.

ya Nintendo has a lot of studios

Nintendo R&D 1-5
Nintendo EAD
NST
Brownie Brown
Intelligent Systems

and many more

Nintendo works just like any other company. The studios are fairly independent, Miyamoto is one of the few people that constantly moves between studios

Oh ok so like when a new mario game comes out or a Zelda game comes out you know which studio makes it? Or when a new IP comes out you know it's gonna be a good game because it's being developed by studio "so and so.." Obviously almost every game made by nintendo is quality but I mean is their certain studios that people get hyped up for more than others or is it just kind of like hyped up for the fact that it's nintendo period?

Yeah they have a lot of distinct studios, you can wiki it if you're curious about the various teams.

But there's dedicated teams to various series, you can tell the different teams cause of the game that comes out

But ones that have distinctive names off the top of my head

Retro Studios
Brownie Brown
HAL labs
Intelligent Systems
Monolith
Next Level

Nintendo has distinct studios AND internal divisions. Not to mention their second-party studios who develop exclusively for Nintendo platforms.

Internal divisions:

EAD (Entertainment Analysis and Development)

EAD 1, EAD 2, EAD 3 , EAD 4, EAD Tokyo

SPD (Software Planning and Development)

SPD1, SPD2, SPD3

SDD (Software Design and Development)

NSD (Network Service Development)

NST (Nintendo Software Technology)

Development Studios:

Retro Studios

ND Cube

Project Sora

Brownie Brown

Monolith Soft

Second-Party studios:

Intelligent Systems

HAL Laboratory

The Pokemon Company

Creatures Inc.

iQue Ltd.

The internal divisions are the rockstars of the company. They do the Marios, Zeldas, Wii Fits, Wii Sports, etc etc. The second party studios do awesome stuff like Pokemon, Smash Bros, Kirby, etc. The first party studios are ok. Retro is AWESOME, and Project Sora has potential to be awesome. Also Brownie Brown has done some cool stuff like Professor Layton.

Cool. Thanks guys. Now I can sleep soundly tonight. :]

Retro Studio's is a Nintendo Owned 2nd party company, they are the people that made the metroid prime series? lol

Nintendo EAD is the best studio of Nintendo and the best studio in the world. That's where works Miyamoto as the manager of this studio. The studio is divided in teams that allows multiples games to be done is the same time.

Nintendo EAD is doing Zelda main serie and now portables episodes as well, they are doing all the mario platforms, the mario kart, animal crossing, pikmin, Wii Sport, Wii Fit , Nintendogs etc....

This is the heart of Nintendo.

Then there are HAL, doing Kirby and Smash Bros

Intelligent System doing Fire Emblem, Advance wars , Paper Mario

and all the other studios listed by someone above.