Nintendo & Namco
Should we be calling them Nintendco or Namtendo? Things haven’t quite gone that far, but Bandai Namco’s strong working-relationship looks to be something that we’re going to be seeing more of in the future.
The giant of Japanese entertainment has an internal studio called Studio 2nd/Studio S which is dedicated to working on ‘commissioned’ projects, in this case that would be Nintendo projects. The people at the studio already have a healthy portfolio of prior Nintendo products that they’ve worked on including Mario Kart 8, Smash Bros. Ultimate and ARMS.
So we can expect to see Namco and Nintendo teaming up a lot more in the future.
Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’ probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Playing through the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster collection, and all the other mainline Final Fantasy games up 12 on the Switch.
