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Stuart23 on 05 January 2021

Darwinianevolution said:

Wait, they weren't part of Nintendo already? They've been doing Mario games for more than a decade now! Huh...

Many of the studios Nintendo is famous to work with are second parties, not entirely owned by Nintendo, like Hal, Intelligent Systems and Good Feel Inc.

Next Level Games have been working exclusively for Nintendo this past generations, but they had many licensed games on PS2 and PS3, for example.



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Stuart23 on 05 January 2021

I think this is great. This makes them the third western software studio of Nintendo, after Retro and NST. And with these two barely producing nowadays, I think Next Level will be awesome for Nintendo Switch's library.



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peachbuggy on 05 January 2021

Great news! Hopefully they are working on something cool as we speak. Or Nintendo has given them a dormant franchise to work on, as this shows they have a lot of trust in them. I recently found out HAL is an independent company but it works with some pretty big Nintendo IP's. Nintendo ought to try and secure them, in case another company tries to invest in HAL.



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B6a6es on 05 January 2021
Stuart23 said:

Darwinianevolution said:

Wait, they weren't part of Nintendo already? They've been doing Mario games for more than a decade now! Huh...

Many of the studios Nintendo is famous to work with are second parties, not entirely owned by Nintendo, like Hal, Intelligent Systems and Good Feel Inc.

Don’t forget the elephant in the room, Gamefreak 



Dulfite on 05 January 2021

I suspect this is the only way Nintendo will acquire outside studios. They will have to make years of successful Switch exclusives first and even then it isn't a certainty as they much prefer to create their own studios. I am curious if they will ever create their own North American studio again?



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DonFerrari on 05 January 2021

Very good move, secure a strong partner, doesn't take anything away from multiplatform and can also have more financing to get them to make even better games.



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Wman1996 on 05 January 2021

Smart. I've thought for years that Nintendo should do this.



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Gazak on 05 January 2021

Yes!

I hope that MercurySteam is the next one. 



AngryLittleAlchemist on 05 January 2021
curl-6 said:

This is kinda like marrying your girlfriend of 15 years.

Not a bad move though, Luigi's Mansion 3 was pretty damn good, and it always helps to have more first party studios.

The hope for me is that Next Level Games will have a decent boost in productivity. I know Nintendo lists that as a boon for acquiring Next Level Games, but of course we don't know to what extent they could possibly expect NLG to increase their production capabilities. Would be nice if NLG went on a hiring spree now, I think. Their core team is apparently pretty small (with the big amount of developers on their titles probably being outsourcing some asset creation). 



Dulfite on 05 January 2021
DonFerrari said:

Very good move, secure a strong partner, doesn't take anything away from multiplatform and can also have more financing to get them to make even better games.

Indeed. Though you wouldn't think their budgets were short before this looking at LM3. Maybe they will receive more funds to expand the team or create a new team to make more games or games quicker. I hope Nintendo let's them work with other ips that no longer have yes working on them. They are a talented enough studio that I would prefer they use their time on AAA experiences rather than low budget games going forward.