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AgentZorn on 05 January 2015

I think the reason why they didn't put EAD Nintendo is because most people would not know who they are, or would get confused and think that they are some external Nintendo developer. Unless its a third party developer, you will not see on the box art which of Nintendo developers worked on the game.

Also Ubisoft has been fumbling hard this year while Nintendo at the very least releases games that work on day 1.



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Mike_L on 05 January 2015
TheLastStarFighter said:
Nintendo EAD should be considered one developer. Just like how Naughty Dog has 2 teams now, or Square has about 4 working internally or Capcom Japan may have 5 or 6, Nintendo EAD has about 10. Retro or Monolithsoft should be considered separate developers. But "Nintendo" is a developer internally and should be regarded as such. You don't separate EAD team 1 or 2 or 3 anymore than you would separate the Naughty Dog's teams or the FFXIV team from the FFXV team as separate developers.

And yeah, I would say on any given year they could be called "developer of the year" without much objection.

Okay. It's a good point that Nintendo EAD 1, EAD 2, etc. could be considered as just 1 developer like Naughty Dog team 1 and team 2.

Still I hope the people at game awards make it clear in future nominations exactly which developer is nominated. I see "Nintendo" as a publisher and "Nintendo EAD" as one of their internal developers. Why not nominate "Nintendo EAD" as the developer of the year instead of "Nintendo" which include everything published by Nintendo in 2014. Even games developed by entirely different studios (Donkey Kong by Retro, Smash Bros. by Namco, Bayonetta by Platinum, etc). Nintendo EAD would've won dev of 2014 on their own anyway imo.

 

Nominating "Nintendo" as developer of the year just causes confusion:

Samus Aran said:
As for people saying Nintendo only got nominated because of EAD, that's bullshit. 

Retro Studios - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Namco Bandai - Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS


Ruler on 05 January 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Ruler said:
Ka-pi96 said:

It is mostly a western awards show (it's being done in America and as far as I know they are presenting it only in English) so I can understand the minimal Japanese presence there. As for having only first world countries, that makes perfect sense. They are the biggest markets for gaming, they have the most experience with buying/playing/rating games. Maybe if some other countries could become a really good market for games and have some respected critics they would deserve a place, but as it is now they don't. I can agree on Polygon though


They are not the biggest market, china and south korea are above many of the countries and none of them is represented. China is the second biggest market in fact.

http://www.newzoo.com/free/rankings/top-100-countries-by-game-revenues/

Also they should marketing it as an anglo american panel if they only reprent this view

Ya know, the source you linked does show the US as the biggest market...

Besides that, I did say more things than just market size. Can you name any critics from China or South Korea that are well respected across the world?

their critics should be well respected if they have such big markets. 



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