Wow, we have a mind reader here! Must be cool always knowing what other people think without having to ask!

You all seem to be only able to think in legal terms. Companies aren't faceless entities, well they are that as well, but they are composed of people who actually work on the games. What I meant was: who cares who legally owns an IP, it's the people who actually made the game the ones we should trace back the IP to.

Helping is one thing (no matter how big the help), having the initial concept and effectively realizing it is another.

Thanks for educating me! Now you might go and read beyond the first post to understand what I meant... do that next time as well if you want to avoid posting the same message everybody already did, only more condescendenly.

It'd be cool if you could provide me a source about those, can't find anything related to what you say.

Westwood was 100% EA before being closed down by EA itself. Maxis is 100% owned by EA. Lionhead is 100% owned by Microsoft.

F-Zero and Zelda were created by Nintendo in first place, then outsourced. Xenoblade Chronicles (X as well I guess) and The Wonderful 101 were created by other studios, they weren't created by Nintendo and then outsourced: as in the original concept didn't come from Nintendo itself (as far as I know), they just helped…

I see what you mean, I just view the matter differently, Retro for example was basically born inside Nintendo, Monolith and Platinum have done lots of different stuff before their partnership (acquisition in Monolith's case) with the big N. They feel like their own entities, like Rare and Silicon Knights before, no…

What I meant is that Nintendo didn't MAKE those games, of course Nintendo could go and buy Atlus tomorrow, but in the context of new Nintendo IPs I wouldn't go and say that Trauma Center and SMT would be new IPs from Nintendo, or say that it isn't true they make new franchises: there's a difference between buying an…

Sure, and Westwood was owned by EA: so would you consider C&C an EA IP? Is SimCity an EA IP or a Maxis one? Would you consider Fable an IP from Microsoft or from Lionhead? Etc.

Yes I do, Rare was a second party as well, though Conker, Banjo and Perfect Dark aren't exactly Nintendo IPs, are they?

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What? Kirby got 2 games on Wii just recently, and 2-3 games on DS. Now Starfox, F-Zero, those are great neglected franchises.

That's horrible. My condolences to his friends and beloved.

We also know from where the Xbox One came from: AIO (All In One).

No, I just listen to common sense.

You absolutely must play Super Mario RPG, the first 2 Paper Mario (I actually prefer the first one, but according to most the second's better) and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga.

As a white person frankly I don't give a damn. Why should I be offended exactly? A joke should be insulting to me? O_o

The world nowadays is really made of oversensitive people.

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No really, I'm not even against the japanese or not-videogame-related stuff (even if lately it's getting enormously out of hand), it's this particular story that makes no sense whatsoever. They just took a ridiculous claim from a troll and posted it as a news, while nobody in their right mind would think this is a rip…