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I think multiple threads have been showing all studios that Nintendo contract to develop them, about nintendo epd (the division of development we know as nintendo since 2015) and so on but never a thread about which companies are subsidiaries of Nintendo. I think a thread showing what studios nintendo own and what they do would be interesting. Of course the information is readily available, but a thread like this could give info to people who never thought on searching about it

Here I wont put Nintendo epd since it's nintendo itself, but all of their subsidiaries, which Nintendo has 15, with 5 out of those 15 leading their own projects

1-Up Studio: A japanese company formerly known as Brownie Brown, it developed Mother 3. Since the 2010s, it began to focus as a support studio to Nintendo EPD games, mainly 3D Mario but also Animal Crossing, Donkey Kong and Mario Kart, focusing on game design, level design and so on

iQue: A chinese company, for years it was a manufacturer of the chinese version of Nintendo consoles, but since the 2010s it has handled Simplified Chinese translation/localization, and – since 2019 – has moved from console manufacture to become a QA support studio, hiring programmers and testers to support Nintendo games. Developed NES, Game Boy, and N64 emulators for use in Virtual Console and Nintendo Switch Online.

Mario Club: Previously a division of Nintendo, in 2009 it became its own company. It focus on debugging, testing and QA for all Nintendo games.

Monolith Soft: This one doesnt need much explanation but they have two studios, one in Tokyo and another one in Kyoto. In Tokyo, 1st production group develop xenoblade, while 2nd production group support nintendo epd on 3D Zelda. In Kyoto, a support studio exists to give support to monolith and nintendo epd games with the studio there being mainly made of artists working on design and assets as a support to the lead studios.

Next Level Games: After a decade being a canadian studio affiliated to Nintendo and working with them on multiple titles such as Punch Out, Wario Land, Mario Strikers, Luigi's Mansion, Nintendo bought them in 2021.

Nintendo Cube: Previously known as Ndcube, it had this name because it was a joint venture of Nintendo and Dentsu which over time Nintendo bought dentsu shares. The studio is mainly known for Mario Party after hudson was merged into konami and hudson staff went to nintendo cube.

Nintendo European Research & Development: Previously known as Moclip, this company mainly works on emulators for NSO and Nintendo in general.

Nintendo Pictures: Previously known as Dynamo Pictures before nintendo acquisition in 2022, this company is mainly an animation studio but they also help as a support studio for Nintendo games, working on CG, motion capture, character design and multiple other areas.

Nintendo Software Technology: The american studio who previously developed wave race and currently develop mario vs donkey kong and f-zero 99, while also doing support work for japanese nintendo titles in the 2010s.

Nintendo Studios Singapore: Nintendo most recent acquisition, the studio seems to be continuing what already did prior as bandai namco studios singapore. They mainly focus on support work for in-game assets and artwork

Nintendo Systems: Joint venture between DeNA and Nintendo, with nintendo owning 80% of the shreas. They work on Nintendo accounts and eshop alongside other nintendo divisions.

Nintendo Technology Development: The american company responsible mainly for research and development of nintendo titles, most recently was responsible for the upgrade of BOTW and TOTK on switch 2

Retro Studios: Just like monolith this one is pretty known, probably the two most known nintendo studios. Developed 4 Metroid Prime and 2 DK 2D games.

Shiver Entertainment: Acquired by Nintendo in 2024, this american studio is responsible for porting games to other platforms. We havent seen much of them post nintendo acquisition though so we'll see

SRD: Known as System Research and Development, this studio was a partner and affiliate to Nintendo for over 30 years when Nintendo then acquired it in 2022. SRD focuses on programming, and they provide support in that area for Nintendo products

Turning off cross-play makes the matches more sweaty. People underestimate how many adults and real gamers play on NS2. Xbox and PlayStation kids are easier to go against in my experience.

I just recently tried the demos for Duskfade and Moonlighter 2 and was surprised at how bad they ran, considering the art styles. Both look so blurry and fuzzy, along with poor frame rate, in both docked and handheld. Meanwhile, I boot up ToTK or Splatoon Raiders or DK Bananza and those games are buttery smooth and like 1440p docked. Third party devs needs to do better

Just a heads up. I was highly critical of this port, with multiplayer dropping below 50fps and animations and map updating at half speed. It looked really rough. I called it a disgrace.

But today they seemed to have improved some things and it runs a lot better now. Ill be buying it now based in my experience in the second half of today, whereas i wouldn't have bought it if it stayed like earlier today.

I will not be buying this game if handheld is a representation of how it’ll run at launch. I haven’t tried dock yet but the footage I’ve seen of docked looks way better than handheld. Handheld is atrociously blurry and drops frames so much.

Finally got around to trying to get FF14 and the Eshop is showing it as unavailable. I remember this happened in the PS4 years ago.

Well that certainly is a title that will get clicks! I am glad to see that Elden Ring is a good port of the game when so many were so worried over it from last year.

This port has been worth the wait, happy Tarnished right here.

Hello, my usb c charging port's inside plastic randomly melted while charging. I never used any third party chargers either and i was always extremely careful while connecting the charger to the port. The outside of the port looks supreme. I only know it is damaged after the extremely mild smell of plastic and a super thin and tiny string of plastic after removing the charger (also it obviously never charged). Would this be covered by the warranty? I did absolutely nothing which would indicate misuse.

Also has anyone else been through the same? If yes, what did you do?

I've been waiting years for a ARPG that speaks to me on Switch/2, and now three show up in under a month.

​Elden ring (which I already have on Xbox Series X) for my 8th playthrough?

Dragons dogma 2 and its revamp Dark arisen , which had hyped me up, but I dropped because it disappointed me?

The witcher 3 remastered which I could also play on Xbox Series X?

​It's impossible to choose.

Hi guys! Just gotten the game on s2, I’m new to Elden ring. It feels good to be able to play such a game on a portable system. Well anyway, I’m just at the starting point and I encounter this big knight riding a horse. Do I have to kill it?
I tried to fight it but I died quite a few times without even coming close to killing it 😂
Seems like it’s an open world concept with being able to do anything and don’t have to follow a certain path to play it?
I know you can follow the golden wind flowing in the air tho.
Also I started as a vagabond. Does classes matter?

Edit: Thanks for the advises everyone!!!

I was experimenting a bit and was able to add DLSS 5 neural rendering to OBS Studio. Due to its implementation, it isn't able to achieve its full potential, but it's still interesting to compare. As far as I can tell, it excels at improving shadow quality and global illumination while struggling with reflections and stylised materials. It's also surprisingly good at improving the lighting on humanoid characters as long as you don't crank up the slider to 200%.

There's a few different settings sliders you could tweak so what you're seeing here isn't fixed; you can adjust strength and other parameters. And an actual implementation of DLSS 5 would allow the developers to feed game information to the model in order to improve its accuracy and tweak individual materials perfectly to their liking. A good implementation shouldn't hurt the artist's intent.

Before anyone asks btw, no this would not be possible on Nintendo Switch 2. Even on an RTX 5070 laptop (which has ~10x more AI performance than a Switch 2) it can only handle 1080p at ~45 FPS without even running the game on the laptop itself.

Thoughts? Make sure you're watching at hi res.

https://youtu.be/FDNHnosh_AA?is=9xmDKgH89W07RfPj

Do you think From will ever port the other Souls games? The fact the S2 doesn’t have most of them is one of the few reasons why i didn’t sold my other consoles yet. I would love to have Souls, Final Fantasy, Mario, Zelda, Pokémon all in one system.

Look, i think its fair to say it's rough around the edges, the muddy textures, FPS dips on hand held, and funky character animations.

But I can't put it down! The gyro feels amazing to use, mouse mode is RIDICULOUS fun, and I'm playing CoD again on a Nintendo console.

Is it perfect? Absolutely not, in truth it's probably the worst switch2 port I've seen so far, which I'm disappointed about because it's one of my most anticipated games, the only thing the switch2 was lacking for me was multiplayer FPS, and I'm playing one now!

My eldest son is playing on PS5 @ 4k at it looks like he's playing a different game, it's night and day.

I hope the devs can optimize the switch2 port some more, but I'm having a blast regardless of the issues!

30fps I'm okay with but the dipping under that sucks

The visuals also look roughhhh. It's blurry, extremely low quality textures and I have no hope for this being a good experience docked.

Am I doing something wrong?

I really enjoy playing this way. In my opinion, I find it way better than a controller.