Why don't Nintendo just buy the Paper Mario devs? | Intelligent Systems deep dive

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With Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door about to release, who are Paper Mario, Fire Emblem and Wario Ware developers Intelligent Systems? This video we'll deep dive their history, look at their production capabilities and how this can be used for future forecasting.

00:00 Questions
00:42 Beginnings
02:14 Games
03:44 Expansion
04:52 Fire Emblem/Paper Mario overlap
05:38 Paper Mario/Wario Ware overlap
06:49 Advance Wars and Pushmo
08:26 Nintendo EPD involvement
10:16 Why don't Nintendo buy Intelligent Systems?

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A little correction (?) about INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS "still hold the copyright for Fire Emblem" (~2:41). IIRC they didn't at first; around 1996 Nintendo transferred 50% ownership of several IPs to them. This is mentioned in the Kaga lawsuit.

SmashFail

Keep grinding bro, you're one of the most interesting new channels out there

Nini-wquh

I think Nintendo's relationship with their partner studios (Intelligent in particular) shows just how differently they conduct business compared to the other big companies. If this was Microsoft or Sony they would've acquired Intelligent and friends long ago (and made a big deal about it too)

EnigmaticGentleman

So what you’re telling me is that a Wario RPG is possible since both PM and WW teams are near enough the same…

JODOROWSKY

Something I want to point out is that while there hasn't been a new Syle Savvy game on Switch, the developers of that series did release Fashion Dreamer in 2023. Which seems to be a spiritual successor to the Style Savvy series. If that should count is up to you.

treesnip

If I recall correctly, Fire Emblem Three Houses, the game was developed with a small IS team, but the brunt of the game was made with Koei Tecmo staff (I'd say that, lest I mixed with some other information, with the Gust team).

Edit: No, I'm not talking about the Fire Emblem Warriors games. Those definitely have the Koei Tecmo brand, and were done by Omega Force. No, I'm talking specifically about Three Houses.

cyberrb

I think you missed the point that intelligent systems also developed hardware and dev kits for nintendo like the NTR dev kit for the DS

AzureOtsu

Great video, I watched the original version before you put this one up. I have a suggestion to make. Since you work from a script from what I can tell, it seems like you could make captions for your videos without too much extra work on your end. I hope you consider it, I would really appreciate it!

BagMonster

Typo in the tilte "who" instead of "why".

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Loving your consistent output and your very sophisticated and well informed scripts. You tackle topics that really speak to me as a lifelong Nintendo fan who ponders these questions on the regular and finds satisfaction in seeking out answers as best as possible. Keep up the great work!

GameGingo

FYI Shouzou Kaga directed Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 in all but name, so it's really more like 4 FE games

agromchung

10:15 is when the title comes into play.

Zack

One thing about comparing Three Houses and Paper Mario credits to see if the teams overlap: A lot of the development staff on Three Houses came not from Nintendo or Intelligent Systems, but Koei Tecmo. I would expect Three Houses staff to not have much overlap with Intelligent System's other titles due to the KT presence. What if you compared Engage with the Warioware or paper mario? Would there be more overlap there?

wishonpleiades

I'm curious as to what a deep-dive on HAL LABS might look like, considering they're even closer than Intelligent Systems, through the fact Nintendo have 50% of shares in the company, and what Warp Star Inc have to do with it all

surprisedlobsta