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why does nintendo hire other companys to make there game.


Matt Macdowel

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Now why does nintendo hire companys to make there games.

Team Ninja is hired to make metroid other M

Rare was hired to make starfox adventures

Nintendo hired namco to make assasult

and theres more.

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Now why does nintendo hire companys to make there games.

Team Ninja is hired to make metroid other M

Rare was hired to make starfox adventures

Nintendo hired namco to make assasult

and theres more.

They did start SF right?

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They did start SF right?

Rare and namco made the new ones (Gamecube)  well nintendo made SNES and n64 starfox's and command well idk who made command.
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Rare and namco made the news one well nintendo made SNES and n64 starfox's and command well idk who made command.

They started it, they shouldn't have kept passing to different companies after SF64 :S

Also Q-Games made SFC

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They started it, they shouldn't have kept passing to different companies after SF64 :S

Also Q-Games made SFC

Thank you well i guess u could consider SFC to be made by nintendo since dylan cuthbert or whatever help made starfox and hes the president of Q games.  I agree to Foxxx but it seems the only new game from nintendo is either mario i think and that new RPG with Robats what ever thats called.

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Because Nintendo is primarily a console manufacturer and publisher, not a developer. They do some development, but it's not their main business. In order to meet demands of fans, they sometimes use second and third party developers to help or completely build their games.

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Because Nintendo is primarily a console manufacturer and publisher, not a developer. They do some development, but it's not their main business. In order to meet demands of fans, they sometimes use second and third party developers to help or completely build their games.

theres Nintendo E.A.D i think they make nintendo games. Yeah sure they make consoles but when they had the n64 and previous consoles they made games for them to no hiring companys.
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theres Nintendo E.A.D i think they make nintendo games. Yeah sure they make consoles but when they had the n64 and previous consoles they made games for them to no hiring companys.

Those are their first party developers. They are only so many of them, and they are already booked up.

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Nintendo is lazy and starting to lose creativity. End of story.

No, just like everyone else they are a business, and a business needs to keep up with the industry. With their main development team, Nintendo EAD, bogged down with projects, they wouldn't be able to make games fast enough, to have EVERY SINGLE in-house franchise developed by EAD all at the same time would be a strain on resources, mainly manpower, money, and equipment. They simply wouldn't be able to make as high quality games. We would be getting very poor quality games and not as quickly as we would want them to, so us gamers would be losing on both subjects.

It is cheaper, and also more efficient, to strike deals with their second parties, and the third party companies, and have them develop games while Nintendo themselves oversee the project and takes care of publishing.

So what would you rather have? Very low quality games churned out a slow rate? Or would you rather get the games at the same rate we do now, and keep the quality that they have? Your decision.

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Those are their first party developers. They are only so many of them, and they are already booked up.

well i read some where that  nintendo recetly bought out a game company now making a game but why them but not nintendo. nintendo big company so they have time!
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Oh, and FYI, Q-Games is the creator of the SF franchise; Nintendo is the trademark company for the franchise.

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Oh, and FYI, Q-Games is the creator of the SF franchise; Nintendo is the trademark company for the franchise.

I thought it was Argonaut Games :S

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Oh, and FYI, Q-Games is the creator of the SF franchise; Nintendo is the trademark company for the franchise.

I thought it was Argonaut Games :S

It was, but Argonaut Games collapsed a long time ago, the lead programmer of Star Fox, Dylan Cuthbert, was the one who started Q-Games.

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nintend bascily owns the game and can  whtever they want wit it. but nintedo can till at least make one of here own games beies mario.

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There is also a bit of argigance/ignorance here. You are assuming everyone does things the american way. The British game development scene is different, so much so that it often shocks americans who come over here. Where as in the US you will have a team that makes the whole game, then ship it to a publisher. Here you have the core team of creatives who form the idea for the game as well lead technical and artistic roles, but then the bulk of the grunt work is done on contract.

So, for sake of example, lets say your making Starfox, you would have your lead in house artists design the arwing, then commission a 3D modeler to build that while you work on something else. This system has it's pros and cons of course. Games writing is natoriously bad when using this system. It can also be benifital because you could, using the above example, hire a guy who only does aircraft modeling.

I assume the Japanese do things differently as well.

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Nintendo is lazy and starting to lose creativity. End of story.

Yeah! And narwhals caused the extinction of the unicorns!

(The above two statements are equally silly.)

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Yeah! And narwhals caused the extinction of the unicorns!

(The above two statements are equally silly.)

Pssh! Everyone knows narwhales evolved from the unicorns during a particulary wet rainseason in their living habitats in Kuala Lumpur for several billions of years ago!

(J/K. Second SFR and Mr. K.)

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