Nintendo development list

[daftada]

I put together a list of Nintendo's various teams and partners and what they're currently working on, thought I'd share it. I'll update as and when more information is available. Feel free to add any more you can think of. I think the first/second party status is right but open to corrections! I’ve listed internal teams as first-party; studios part-owned by Nintendo as second-party; and studios Nintendo is developing with, or has commissioned work by, as third-party.

 

First Party

Nintendo EAD (Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka) – Super Mario 3D World (Wii U)

Nintendo EAD Group 1 (Hideki Konno) – Mariokart 8 (Wii U)

Nintendo EAD Group 2 (Katsuya Eguchi) – Animal Crossing New Leaf (3DS)

Nintendo EAD Group 3 (Eiji Aonuma) – Zelda Wind Waker HD (Wii U), Original Zelda title (Wii U), Zelda Link between worlds (3DS)

Nintendo EAD Group 4 (Hiroyuki Kimura) – Pikmin 3 (Wii U)

Nintendo EAD Group 5 (Tadashi Sugiyama) – Wii Fit U (Wii U)

Nintendo EAD Tokyo 1 (Takao Shimizu) – Flipnote Studio 3D (3DS eShop) Mario AR Photo App (3DS eShop)

Nintendo EAD Tokyo 2 (Yoshiaki Koizumi) – New Super Luigi U (Wii U eShop)

Nintendo SPD 1 (Yoshio Sakamoto) – Game & Wario (Wii U)

Nintendo SPD 2 (Hitoshi Yamagami) – Tomodachi Collection: New Life (3DS)

Nintendo SPD 3 (Kensuke Tanabe) – Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)

Nintendo SPD 4 (Hiroshi Sato) –

Nintendo SPD 5 (Masaru Nishita) - Devilish Brain Training (3DS)

NST - Mario & DK Minis on the move (3DS eShop)

Retro Studios – Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Wii U)

Monolith Soft – Project X Zone (3DS), Action RPG 'X' (Wii U), Unannounced title from Kyoto studio (3DS), Animal Crossing New Leaf (3DS)

Brownie Brown – Fantasy Life (3DS)

Intelligent Systems – Game & Wario (Wii U), Fire Emblem X Shin MegaTen (Wii U), Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS)

Project Sora –Smash Bros (3DS & Wii U)

Nd Cube – Wii Party U (Wii U)

 

 

Second Party

Asobism -

AlphaDream – Mario & Luigi Dream Team Bros (3DS)

Creatures Inc. –

Camelot Software Planning – Mario Golf: World Tour (3DS)

Game Freak - Harmo Knight (3DS eShop), Pokemon X/Y (3DS)

Genius Sonority – Denpa Men 2 (3DS eShop)

Good-Feel – Yarn Yoshi (Wii U), StreetPass Squad (3DS)

Grezzo – StreetPass Garden (3DS)

HAL Laboratory - Face Raiders (3DS)

Monster Games – DKC Returns 3D (3DS)

Next Level Games – Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)

Noise –

Skip Ltd. –

syn Sophia – New Style Boutique (3DS)

 

 

Third Party

Ambrella - Pokemon Rumble U (Wii U eShop)

Arika –

Arzest - Yoshi's New Island (3DS)

Chunsoft - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (3DS), StreetPass Battle (3DS)

Curve - Hydroventure: Spin Cycle (3DS eShop)

Eighting –

Freestyle Games – SiNG Party (Wii U)

Ganbarion - Pandora's Tower (Wii)

Hatena - Flipnote Studio 3D (3DS eShop)

Headstrong Games – Art Academy (Wii U)

Mitchell - Tokyo Crash Mobs (3DS eShop)

NamcoBandai - Smash Bros (3DS & Wii U)

nD Cube - Mario Party 3DS (3DS)

n-Space –

Paon –

Platinum – Wonderful 101 (Wii U), Bayonetta 2 (Wii U)

Prope - StreetPass Mansion (3DS)

Q-Games -

Sandlot -

Suzak –

Team Ninja –

Tecmo Koei – Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 (Wii U)

Tose –

Traveller’s Tales – Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins (3DS) Lego City Undercover (Wii U)

Treasure - Unannounced action game (3DS)

Vanpool – Dillon's Rolling Western: The Last Ranger (3DS eShop)

Vitei – Steel Diver (3DS)

 

 

Titles in development by unknown studio:

 

Yoshi's Island 3DS (3DS)

Edited June 26, 2013 by daftada
Updated 26/6/13

[Murr]

Sorry when was Zelda Wii U mentioned/confirmed?

 

Been off the Internet since Wednesday last week so not upto date with post e3 news.

 

Good list though

[dazzybee]

How lazy are nintendos teams, they're not working on anything. No wonder e3 was so shit

 

Sorry when was Zelda Wii U mentioned/confirmed?

 

Been off the Internet since Wednesday last week so not upto date with post e3 news.

 

Good list though

 

That is all they make. So they will be.

[Grazza]

Thanks for posting that @daftada. Some predictions:

 

EAD 1 - Mario Kart

EAD Tokyo - 3D Mario

 

I think it's quite likely the above is what the remaining EADs are working on, although of course it's hard to say whether Mario would be EAD Tokyo 1 or 2. The following are more hopes than predictions, but they're still feasible:

 

SPD 1 - Metroid V

Grezzo - Majora's Mask 3D

Retro Studios - Metroid Prime 4

 

Since Miyamoto's recent comments about Zelda being in the very early stages, I'm under the assumption that it will once again be by EAD 3, whereas Retro Studio's project is more likely to be another Metroid.

[Serebii]

@daftada

Creatures Inc - Pokémon Dream Radar, Pokédex 3D Pro

Edited June 11, 2012 by Serebii

[D_prOdigy]

Monolith is working on at least one Wii U project.

[daftada]

I'm looking forward to seeing what Good Feel are up to, really hoping for a Yoshi's Island on 3ds, completely drawn with chunky crayons! Also intruiged as to what AlphaDream are doing with themselves since Nintendo have Paper Mario on 3ds it doesn't really leave room for another Mario & Luigi RPG.

[Jonnas]

Man, why isn't there a list of this on the internets?

 

...Well, now there is And it should be stickied, I think.

[Zechs Merquise]

You can add Treyarch to the third party list!

[Dcubed]

Couple of mistakes there. EAD Comprehensive Group is not a seperate team within EAD. It's just a term for EAD as a whole.

 

Also Retro Studios and Creatures are 1st party, not 2nd; while Monster Games and Next Level Games are 3rd party, not 2nd.

 

With that in mind, I've fixed up your list, added Asobism (Who are a second party who are made up of ex Skip Ltd staff and made Freakyforms) as well as NST & Q-Games and added missing games.

 

Just before I list these games I'd just like to note that EAD doesn't work like most other studios. While there are 5 different EAD teams, EAD is actually just one big studio. The way it works is that there is a central pool of production staff, who are distributed throughout each project team (headed by different individuals) as and when is needed. So there is no one "best" EAD studio. EAD Tokyo is the exception though, due to geographical distance.

 

I've underlined the developers whose status is currently unknown (aren't I just so helpful? )

 

 

First Party

 

Brownie Brown – Fantasy Life

Intelligent Systems – Game & Wario (Wii U), Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Fire Emblem: Awakening DLC

Monolith Soft – Project X Zone, Unannounced Wii U title

Nd Cube – (Just released Mario Party 9 in March, but currently Unknown)

Nintendo EAD Group 1 (Hideki Konno) – (Just finished MK7 in co-operation with Retro, but Unknown)

Nintendo EAD Group 2 (Katsuya Eguchi) – Animal Crossing 3DS, Nintendoland

Nintendo EAD Group 3 (Eiji Aonuma) – Zelda 3DS, Zelda Wii U

Nintendo EAD Group 4 (Hiroyuki Kimura) – Pikmin 3, NSMB U

Nintendo EAD Group 5 (Tadashi Sugiyama) – Wii Fit U

Nintendo EAD Tokyo 1 (Takao Shimizu) – Flipnote Memo

Nintendo EAD Tokyo 2 (Yoshiaki Koizumi) – (Just finished SM3DL, so we won't hear from them for a while, but Unknown)

Nintendo SPD 1 (Yoshio Sakamoto) – Tomodachi Collection 2, Game & Wario (With Intelligent Systems)

Nintendo SPD 2 (Hitoshi Yamagami) – Unknown

Nintendo SPD 3 (Kensuke Tanabe) – Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon (This studio deals with all collaborations with western studios)

Nintendo SPD 4 (Hiroshi Sato) – Unknown (This studio deals with collaborations with outside Japanese studios - usually Hudson, but they're basically NDCube now so lord knows who they're working with!)

Nintendo SPD 5 (Masaru Nishita) - Brain Training 3DS

Nintendo Software Technology Unknown

Project Sora – Smash Bros 3DS & Wii U

Retro Studios – Unknown

 

 

Second Party

AlphaDream – Unknown

Asobism - Unknown

Creatures Inc. – Pokemon Dream Radar , Pokedex 3D Pro

Camelot Software Planning – (Only just bloody released Mario Tennis Open last month! but still, Unknown

Game Freak - Pokemon White 2, Pokemon Black 2 (DS)

Genius Sonority – Unknown

Good-Feel – Unknown

Grezzo – Unknown

HAL Laboratory - Kirby 25th Anniversary disc

Noise – Unknown

Q-Games (Just released Pixeljunk 4AM on PS3, but still Unknown)

Skip Ltd. – Unknown

syn Sophia– Style Savvi 2

 

 

Third Party

Ambrella – Unknown

Arika – Unknown

Eighting – (Just released Monster Hunter 3G for Capcom last year, but Unknown)

Freestyle Games – SiNG

Ganbarion - Unknown

Headstrong Games – Unknown

Monster Games – Unknown

Next Level Games – Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

n-Space – Heroes of Ruin, Skylanders Giants 3DS

Paon – (Just released a Tamagotchi game for Namco in April in Japan, but Unknown)

Platinum – Project P-100

Sandlot - Earth Defence Force 2 port for PSP

Suzak – Unknown

Team Ninja – Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge, DOA5 PS360

Tecmo Koei – (Just released Spirit Camera and Pokemon Conquest, but otherwise Unknown)

Tose – Unknown (Comes with the job description!)

Traveller’s Tales – Lego City Undercover 3DS & Wii U

Vanpool – (Dillon's Rolling Western was released only a few months ago, but still Unknown)

Vitei – Unknown

 

 

Titles in development by unknown studio

 

New Super Mario Bros 2 (While the NSMB games have all been developed within EAD4, they did mention in the roundtable that it's being developed by a different team within Nintendo. Whether or not that means it's developed by different staff within EAD 4, or by a different department all together remains to be seen)

Edited June 12, 2012 by Dcubed

[Cube]

Even if it's just one of their projects (I don't expect the whole staff to be working on it), won't HAL be the ones doing Kirby 20th Anniversary?

[Dcubed]

Even if it's just one of their projects (I don't expect the whole staff to be working on it), won't HAL be the ones doing Kirby 20th Anniversary?

 

I was still editing it as you typed that up, but thanks for pointing that out anyway!

 

Right! Speculation time!

 

Alphadream: Mario & Luigi for Wii U! With Paper Mario going handheld, it's only logical that M&L comes to the big screen (1080p sprite based goodness across 2 screens )

 

Skip: Hopefully a new batch of Art Style games for 3DS, just think of what they could do with them in 3D

 

Arika: A new batch of 3D Classics titles (COME ON ALTTP 3D!!!)

 

Retro Studios (AKA, the big one): You could dedicate an entire thread to just them! Whatever is happening with them, I hope it's a new IP! It's about time that they finally got the chance to work on something completely original!

 

Good Feel: I think they've been typecasted as the go-to guys for hand drawn 2D platformers. Whatever it'll be, it'll be on Wii U in 1080p and it'll be beautiful!

 

Monster Games: After Pilotwings Resort, they could be working on just about anything! Maybe even Wii Sports U!

 

NST: They've been bulking up massively over the past year or so, with a huge injection of talent. Seems that they're going to be finally working on big projects again Hopefully it's something a bit more western focused (I'd love to see them get a crack at working on an original FPS!)

Edited June 12, 2012 by Dcubed

[dazzybee]

And vicarious Visions are Nintendo 3rd party?! Don't they soley work on Nintendo platforms?! Or primarily?

[Hogge]

SPD 1 - Metroid V

Grezzo - Majora's Mask 3D

Retro Studios - Metroid Prime 4

 

Since Miyamoto's recent comments about Zelda being in the very early stages, I'm under the assumption that it will once again be by EAD 3, whereas Retro Studio's project is more likely to be another Metroid.

 

I'm actually hoping that they won't make another Metroid. A brand new franchise, maybe an FPS would be excellent.

[FireMeowth]

n-Space - Skylanders: Giants (3DS)

 

They've also got Heroes of Ruin and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D, of course, but I guess they're done with the former considering it's being released in a few days, and they did say RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D was ready, so I guess there's no need adding those to the list?

[Dcubed]

n-Space - Skylanders: Giants (3DS)

 

They've also got Heroes of Ruin and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D, of course, but I guess they're done with the former considering it's being released in a few days, and they did say RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D was ready, so I guess there's no need adding those to the list?

 

Ahh, forgot about Skylanders!

 

I only added RCTycoon for the sake of completeness really, but since I don't wanna make it too messy, I've removed it in favour of Skylanders.

 

Thanks!

[V. Amoleo]

Just to add to what others have been saying about Retro Studios. As much as I love Metroid I hope they're working on something original. That would a) expand Nintendo's IPs and b) show us what Retro can actually do.

[Andyliini]

I don't know if this list is supposed to list everything, or just the big titles about 3rd parties, but is missing Mirror of Fate by MercuryStream/Konami.

 

I mean, Castlevania is still 'big' franchise. Is it?

[Dcubed]

I don't know if this list is supposed to list everything, or just the big titles about 3rd parties, but is missing Mirror of Fate by MercuryStream/Konami.

 

I mean, Castlevania is still 'big' franchise. Is it?

 

The 3rd party list is only games that are published by Nintendo and 3rd party developers who have long standing relationships with Nintendo (Like Q-Games, who in the past have made games like Starfox Command, Reflect Missile, 3D Spacetank and Art-Style Intersect for Nintendo)

 

Stuff like Castlevania is entirely separate and has nothing to do with Nintendo themselves.

Edited June 12, 2012 by Dcubed

[D_prOdigy]

And vicarious Visions are Nintendo 3rd party?! Don't they soley work on Nintendo platforms?! Or primarily?

 

No. In fact they're currently working on a multiplat game for 360/PS3/Wii U

[darksnowman]

I'm actually hoping that they won't make another Metroid.

 

I know we don't mean it in the same way but I hope you're right.

[Fused King]

I can't take Retro Studios' mystery game.

I MUST KNOW!

I so hope for some kind of trailer during the pre-launch conference for the WiiU.

[daftada]

I've tidied up the list, with some of your suggestions (Thanks @Dcubed )

 

Predictions/wish list:

 

Miyamoto (he's pretty much an entire group all by himself) - Original IP, small concept, possibly digital format.

Retro - I think Retro have had two development teams since they started Metroid Prime Trilogy, with one focussing on that and the other working on DKCR. I think we'll see the return of RavenBlade, and possibly Starfox.

Monster Games F-Zero for 3DS, and Excite Trucks 2 for Wii U

NST - They're either working on Metroid Prime 4, or a new FPS IP. Or Mach Rider!

Good Feel - I wonder if they're involved in NSMB U somehow, just a feeling! I'd love a 2D, hand-drawn Yoshi's Island next from them.

Arika - They better be making Endless Ocean 3. Can't decide if I want a 3DS or Wii U version more though.

Grezzo - Either MM or LttP remake. Or they could be in charge of the new 3DS Zelda

[Grazza]

I know we don't mean it in the same way but I hope you're right.

 

Grr, darksnowman!!! I could cope without Metroid Prime 4 (although it'd be nice), but to have no Metroid V/Metroid Dread would be a waste!

[Dcubed]

List updated (Now with Headstrong and Asobism accounted for. I've also added Mitchell, who is another long time 3rd party partner that I had forgotten about, creators of Polarium and Puzzloop, since they've got a new 3DS eShop game in development via Nintendo Direct)

 

First Party

 

Brownie Brown – Fantasy Life

Intelligent Systems – Game & Wario (Wii U), Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Fire Emblem: Awakening DLC

Monolith Soft – Project X Zone, Unannounced Wii U title

Nd Cube – (Just released Mario Party 9 in March, but currently Unknown)

Nintendo EAD Group 1 (Hideki Konno) – (Just finished MK7 in co-operation with Retro, but Unknown)

Nintendo EAD Group 2 (Katsuya Eguchi) – Animal Crossing 3DS, Nintendoland

Nintendo EAD Group 3 (Eiji Aonuma) – Zelda 3DS, Zelda Wii U

Nintendo EAD Group 4 (Hiroyuki Kimura) – Pikmin 3, NSMB U

Nintendo EAD Group 5 (Tadashi Sugiyama) – Wii Fit U

Nintendo EAD Tokyo 1 (Takao Shimizu) – Flipnote Memo

Nintendo EAD Tokyo 2 (Yoshiaki Koizumi) – (Just finished SM3DL, so we won't hear from them for a while, but Unknown)

Nintendo SPD 1 (Yoshio Sakamoto) – Tomodachi Collection 2, Game & Wario (With Intelligent Systems)

Nintendo SPD 2 (Hitoshi Yamagami) – Unknown

Nintendo SPD 3 (Kensuke Tanabe) – Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, New Art Academy (This studio deals with all collaborations with western studios)

Nintendo SPD 4 (Hiroshi Sato) – Unknown (This studio deals with collaborations with outside Japanese studios - usually Hudson, but they're basically NDCube now so lord knows who they're working with!)

Nintendo SPD 5 (Masaru Nishita) - Brain Training 3DS

Nintendo Software Technology Unknown

Project Sora – Smash Bros 3DS & Wii U

Retro Studios – Unknown

 

 

Second Party

AlphaDream – Unknown

Asobism - Freakyforms Deluxe

Creatures Inc. – Pokemon Dream Radar , Pokedex 3D Pro

Camelot Software Planning – (Only just bloody released Mario Tennis Open last month! but still, Unknown

Game Freak - Pokemon White 2, Pokemon Black 2 (DS)

Genius Sonority – Unknown

Good-Feel – Unknown

Grezzo – Unknown

HAL Laboratory - Kirby 25th Anniversary disc

Noise – Unknown

Q-Games (Just released Pixeljunk 4AM on PS3, but still Unknown)

Skip Ltd. – Unknown

syn Sophia– Style Savvi 2

 

 

Third Party

Ambrella – Unknown

Arika – Unknown

Eighting – (Just released Monster Hunter 3G for Capcom last year, but Unknown)

Freestyle Games – SiNG

Ganbarion - Unknown

Headstrong Games – New Art Academy

Mitchell - Gyouretsu Nageloop

Monster Games – Unknown

Next Level Games – Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

n-Space – Heroes of Ruin, Skylanders Giants 3DS

Paon – (Just released a Tamagotchi game for Namco in April in Japan, but Unknown)

Platinum – Project P-100

Sandlot - Earth Defence Force 2 port for PSP

Suzak – Unknown

Team Ninja – Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge, DOA5 PS360

Tecmo Koei – (Just released Spirit Camera and Pokemon Conquest, but otherwise Unknown)

Tose – Unknown (Comes with the job description!)

Traveller’s Tales – Lego City Undercover 3DS & Wii U

Vanpool – (Dillon's Rolling Western was released only a few months ago, but still Unknown)

Vitei – Unknown

 

 

Titles in development by unknown studio

 

New Super Mario Bros 2 (While the NSMB games have all been developed within EAD4, they did mention in the roundtable that it's being developed by a different team within Nintendo. Whether or not that means it's developed by different staff within EAD 4, or by a different department all together remains to be seen)