Next Level Games is now a Official Nintendo Second Party Developer

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I thought that signing an exclusivity contract with a company means you are a second party. First party is owned by the company

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mii-gamer on 15 January 2014

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the developer behind luigi mansion darkmoon

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Great acquisition!

Make another Strikers damn it!!!! Please.

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Areal-Llort on 15 January 2014

Mario Strikers for the Wii U plz!

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Haven't heard of them before Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon

What other games have they made?

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MikeRox on 15 January 2014

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the question is what will they be working on next? will it be the rumored HD port of Luigi's Mansion: DM for WiiU (which I don't see the point of) or a new game? or will they go back to Punch-out?

It has been almost a year since LM:DM so we might see their next game in this months ND

It bloody well better be Mario Strikers on Wii U! Best sports game of the 7th gen that was and by far my most played Wii game.

The difference between before when they were Third Party developers and now being Second Party developers is, although they were making Nintendo software for Nintendo, that was with Nintendo contracting them on a single game basis acting as their Publisher (but owning the IP). Between games, or even simultaneously with those single game contrats, they were free to take any other opportunities they wanted.

Now they are Second Party, they are no longer able to make games for any other company, however they also now have much more stability (like RARE had).

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osed125 on 15 January 2014

padib said:

osed125 said:

Haven't heard of them before Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon

What other games have they made?

They made punch out!! for Wii and Mario Strikers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Level_Games

Never played Punch out for the Wii so I can't comment on that one. But Mario Strikers was freaking amazing! the other tittles they made look very lackluster though.

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retroking1981 on 15 January 2014

means nothing long term, just look at Rare. Things can change.

Short term though its definitely good news for Nintendo as it gives them another studio to help out with first party content.

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NintendoPie on 15 January 2014

Now they need to graduate from Next Level to Level 5.

Heh, see what I did there?

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