Midorioshi said: Thanks for sorting through all that and catching errors. The only thing I feel to be debatable of all the stuff you mentioned is Battalion Wars, if the Wikipedia entry is to be believed (or if I'm not misinterpreting it, haha): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battalion_Wars#Title Sounds like it could be considered a fresh franchise or a spin-off. Got a few more I'm fairly certain of: Clubhouse Games, Yakuman, Art Academy, Teleroboxer, Sennen Kazoku, Personal Trainer series, Wild Trax, Trade & Battle: Card Hero, Slide Adventure MAGKID, Master of Illusion, and Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru. Ones I'm on the fence about: Red Alarm, Nester's Funky Bowling, Polarium, Flash Focus (could probably be tossed in with another IP), and Crosswords DS (Nintendo-made and published, but...yeah). |
No problem. ^_^ And yeah, sometimes spin-offs can blurry the line of whether they're a new IP or not... Persona is one of the best examples of this. I guess it depends on the criteria. I would still put it as part of the Famicom Wars series though, given the titles used on both Japan and the West.
Polarium is certainly a dubious one. It seems Magnetica is actually a version of Puzz Loop, which is owned by Mitchell Corporation, so Polarium is probably owned by them as well and just published by Nintendo. That's what I get from this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Corporation
I'm not sure if Crosswords DS, Clubhouse Games and the NES/SNES sports titles (Soccer, Baseball, etc) could count as IPs, given their characteristics... Maybe including them separately could be an alternative. Although, now that I think about it, Yakuman is probably in a similar case as Crosswords DS and Clubhouse Games given that it's just a mahjong game... I don't know.
Red Alarm doesn't seem to be owned by Nintendo given how the title screen of the game doesn't mention them, just the developer. And Nester's Funky Bowling seems to be dependant on the relation between Nintendo Power and Nintendo themselves at the time, given how the main character appeared on a comic in that magazine. I'm afraid I have to claim ignorance here too...
The rest are fine and I believe Flash Focus could count as its own IP, just like Brain Age does.
By the way, here are other IPs from this gen that could count and haven't been mentioned yet, which I saw months ago when I did some digging on this subject:
Wii: And-Kensaku, Minna no Joushiki Ryoku TV (Everyone's Common Sense TV, apparently...)
WiiWare: MaBoShi: The Three Shape Arcade, Rock N' Roll Climber, You, Me and the Cubes, Eco Shooter: Plant 530, Line Attack Heroes, Snowpack Park, AquaSpace, PictureBook Games (also on DSiWare).
DS: Soma Bringer, Project Hacker, Jet Impulse, Style Savvy/Style Boutique, Tomodachi Collection, Fossil Fighters, Mawashite Tsunageru Touch Panic, Zekkyou Senshi Sakeburein, Make 10: A Journey of Numbers.
DSiWare: Aura-Aura Climber, Metal Torrent, Link 'n' Launch, Reflect Missile/Trajectile, Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon, White-Water Domo, Spotto !/Bird & Bombs, A Kappa's Trail.
I don't know if Takt of Magic (Wii) counts, which is a spiritual successor to LostMagic on DS. LostMagic is owned by Taito as evidenced by the fact that they're releasing a new one on mobile phones, but maybe Nintendo owns Takt of Magic, like how Demon's Souls is a Sony IP but Dark Souls, its spiritual successor, isn't.
EDIT: Here's a comprehensive list of what Nintendo has published: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_published_by_Nintendo