Again, Xenoblade isn't made by EPD, which is what I meant. 

I understand. But I don't think EPD will expand in any way - Nintendo will just keep acquiring other studios instead of forming new EPD teams.

Also xeno is almost 20 years now-xenogears is 19 years old. Yes it started in square, but the xeno team split from square after xenogears to make xenosaga.

Xenoblade is not the same IP as Xenogears or Xenosaga though.
As recently as E3 2009, only a year out from release, it was called "Monado: Beginning of the World". The Xeno was added late in development to honour Takahashi, who likes to add the prefix to his games.

i didnt mean anything bad towards it, i just meant that is faded into obscurity faster than most. it looked promising too.

Hahah, I never said it was an exhaustive list.

I maintain that Captain Toad counts, though, even if he started as a spin-off. The same is true for the likes of Yoshi; their games now have their own identity, style and gameplay.

Toad is literally a sidestory to 3D World though, using most of the same assets and ending with 3DW's opening cutscene. It's basically an expansion/DLC of an existing game.

I clicked on this thinking I was going to say Pikmin. Then I looked it up and that game turns 16 this year. Fuck. That kind of makes me feel old.

I voted for Splatoon. Great game. I just got it in January and have more hours on that game than anything else since probably...Super Smash Bros Brawl, I think? It is just such a fresh take on the shooter genre. I love it.

I still haven't played Xenoblade. I need to.

If you have any fondness for JRPGs at all, you owe it to yourself to give the original Xenoblade a go.

It was a very good game and probably brillant beginning for a new IP... on the wrong platform.

Intelligent Systems basically tried to do their own Steampunk version of Valkyrie Chronicles, soaked in literature inspired characters battling aliens. However the original 3DS could barely handle it. They had to patch it later for both 3DS and New 3DS to increase its speed. Graphically while the designs were quite good, their in game appearences showed the limits of the hardware being only ok at best on the screen but looking pretty bad in screen shots and some videos elsewhere.

If they had just sat on the concept and worked on it as a Switch title, not unlike Star Fox 2 giving way to Star Fox 64, we all might be singing a different tune. But instead it was released and died on the vine. With Intelligent Systems finding much more success with making Fire Emblem games and the occassional puzzle game, the would be franchise is pretty much dead. All players and fans can hope is that one of the higher ups liked the gameplay enough to try to make a spiritual successor within another new franchise down the line.