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Forums - Nintendo - Why doesn't Nintendo let estabished indie devs borrow their IPs ?

KrspaceT on 06 March 2017

Aren't indies more passion projects? And if they are being contracted by big companies are they truly 'Indie'?



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Podings on 06 March 2017

Short answer is: They do.

Long answer is that no-one really considers an established studio working on an established franchise with a big publisher like Nintendo owning and funding the entire production "indie" anymore.

They do sometimes act as publisher for new IP from "indie" developers though. Fluidity/Hydroventure and a couple titles on 3DS are examples of this.