14th January 2005, 3:41 PM
lazyfatbum Wrote:Retro Studios is NOA? I thought it was a 2nd party, hence the seperate company title?
But if that's true, that NOA is responsible for half of Metroid Prime's content and all of it's coding and programing then good lord they've come along way from translating...
Retro is a first-party studio. Rare was a second-party studio. The difference is that Retro is wholly owned by Nintendo. All of Nintendo's first-party devs have separate company titles. I'm sure you've played Paper Mario 2 with the Intelligent Systems logo right after the Nintendo one, or HAL before SSB, etc.
As for the SK thing, it still makes no sense to me. IGN is going to have a big article about it in February, though, supposedly explaining the whole situation.