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Nintendo crowned top December developer

Develop's exclusive studio ranking puts Japanese giant at top of the festive pops

MCV sister site Develop has updated its exclusive monthly developer chart, provided by Chart-Track, showing how the world’s software companies fared during December and the all-important Christmas period at UK retail.

While Call of Duty 4 may have been the top selling game at Christmas in the UK, it’s Nintendo that takes the top developer crown, still carried by the overwhelming success of its two Brain Training titles and other wide-appeal titles such as Wii Play and Super Mario Galaxy.

To read the story in full, head over to Develop
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Director of Development - Nikitova Games

posted by Jon Hare Jan 04, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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Jon Hare

Good for Nintendo, they have always been the best developer in the world in any case. It is just a shame that this tme they had to put so many other publishers and developers noses out of joint in order to ensure that their titles received such high priority on their hardware formats. Losing one month of dev time at the end of a short project is a lot and feeding back Lotcheck failures in drips and drabs at such a critical time of year is also unacceptable. Companies such as Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft should feel lucky that at present no international law forces them to open up their platforms as free technical platforms such as VHS, DVD or Stereo. Personally I feel it is no coincidence that the quality of on sequlled, non licensed original software has gone down ever since controlled platforms became the norm in the mid 90s. The only exceptions to this are those titles that are either devloped or bankrolled by the hardware manufacturers themselves and a handful of titles from big hitters like EA and Ubisoft. Nintendo now faces a moral dilemma, does it revert to type and admit that it doesn't really care very much about the rest of the world after all, or does it properly embrace working with third parties and all the extra demand that this brings. Either way if it does not improve on what happened at the end of this year in regard to working with smaller third parties it may find that support for it's platforms will start to thin out again from the smaller developers and publishers. But then again maybe that is exactly what they want in order to maintain the hallmark of quality on wich their reputation is built

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