I've been waiting for this game since announcement.

i love the "Party" games ,and this one looks like a much better game than MP8, that one had so much potential, but had so little features.

isn't Project Sora , Kid Icarus Uprising?

Project Sora is the name of the company.

Well I love to hear about Nintendo expanding. Right now Sony is catching up to Nintendo's development capabilities. So to see Nintendo expanding more is a major plus for me. I just wish Nintendo Of Canada and Nintendo Of America also expanded. So many new Japanese studios making Japanese games not nearly enough North American studios.

But I'm always cinical. The growth is none the less appretiated. Go Nintendo keep expanding and soon you won't need third parties at all Mwahahah!

Next Level Games (Punch Out, Mario Smash Football) might make a good North American 1st of 2nd party for Nintnedo

Nintendo really need some 1st/2nd parties in Europe as well.  At one point Nintendo had Rare, but since then they haven't had any.  Microsoft and Sony have developers in Europe (Rare, Lionhead, Sony Liverpool, etc).  Perhaps Headstrong might be a good match with Nintendo? (they did both Batallion Wars and House of the Dead: Overkill).

On a slightly unrelated note, I always though that 8ing would make a good 1st or 2nd party developer for Nintendo (they did DQ Swords with Genius Sonority and most recently made Tatsunoko vs Capcom)

Not a lot if you ask me. If I were Nintendo I would buy way more developers with the profits they have, third parties will never accept this Nintendo so they should become bigger to launch games for every kind of gamer, not only old Nintendo fans and casuals.

I wonder if the uDraw Tablet is a success, whether or not Nintendo makes a play for at least part of THQ.

Mike from Morgantown

good for them, can't wait for the NA release

NDcube was a second party studio of Nintendo's already. They just made it a first party studio. Secondly, Nintendo will be very careful about the developers that it purchases. It does not want to become too big that it become inflexible and can't catch on to the latest trends in gaming. It also wants to keep the talent of the studio, which is more important. This is why Nintendo would rather have partner studio's similar to what Microsoft has than to just buy up developers. Rare seemed like a promising purchase for Microsoft but that promise has been lacking. EA purchased a lot of studios only to close down a some of them like Bullfrog Productions, Pandemic Studios, and let's not forget Westwood Studios, the talent left the studio before and after being purchased.

Nintendo has also had it's own fair share of problems with some of it's second party studios like Left Field Productions, which was not happy with the way Nintendo developed games and purchased Nintendo's stake in the company in 2002. Silicon Knights left and Rare was purchased by Microsoft.

Nintendo will be very careful about the studios they purchase or partner with. Maintaining Studios is not an easy task by any stretch of the imagination.

They were majority shareholder before, with a controlling 70% stake.  This isn't really news, Nintendo essentially owned NdCube before and even listed them as a consolidated subsidiary on their balance sheets.

Other studios Nintendo (mostly) owns include...

• Brownie Brown (100%)
• HAL Laboratory (100%)
• Intelligent Systems (100%)
• Retro Studios (100%)
• Monolith Software (80%)
• Project Sora (76%)
• Genius Sonority (56%)
• Ambrella (???%)
• Creatures Inc. (???%)
• Noise (???%)