Nintendo News | Japan Wii/DS Tidbits: Camelot Golfing Game, Luminous Arc 2 and More... [news]

^^ i was right about King story "Project O" so your the kind hmm

Another golf game? Where's Golden Sun DS Camelot?

Why does it say Capcom, but then talk about Camelot? Is that a typo or are they working together on the golf game?

& yeah, me wants Camelot to make fun RPG of Golden proportions.

Does any one know if Camelot is becoming an Independent Developer or are they still going to be a second party to Nintendo?

patjuan32 said:
Does any one know if Camelot is becoming an Independent Developer or are they still going to be a second party to Nintendo?

Camelot has always been a Third Party...just like Factor 5. It's just it chose to be Nintendo-exclusive, as did Factor 5 a long time ago. Now it's working with Capcom, though, you have to wonder if there was a disagreement between the two...perhaps Camelot wanted to do Golden Sun, but Nintendo was pushing it towards Mario sports game too much?

Anyway, my focus is more on that Level 5 RPG - a football RPG! Sounds very interesting to me

That footy RPG sounds bizarre, the Capcom Camelot gof game sounds interesting seeing as though the new Tiger 08 is not as good as we would have hoped. Someone has to create a good one sooner or later, and Capcom could help. Camelot made the Mario Golf game on GC, right?, that should help I reckon.{LS]

UBISoft, Capcom, EA, and Activision are third parties. This means that they develop games independently/without the influence of Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo. However Camelot developed Nintendo licensed titles and titles for Nintendo platforms only. Since the studio is not owned by Nintendo, this makes them a second party.

You're close. However, the games Camelot worked on were merely under a 'Second Party Agreement'. The company remains completely independent of Nintendo and could have developed any other games for other systems should it have chosen to.

Instead it entered into Second Party Agreements for the Mario sports series and, I also believe, Golden Sun (with Nintendo retaining the rights to that series' name). This is similar to the agreements Nintendo has had in the past with Namco (Donkey Konga, Starfox Assault), Capcom (Zelda: Oracles & Minish Cap), Sega (F-Zero GX), Hudson (Mario Party) and Square Enix (Super Mario RPG, Mario Basketball)...