Nintendo keeps refusing to say who makes its games, and with Princess Peach Showtime seemingly developed by a beloved studio nobody's sure why
"The development team will be credited in the game credits", Nintendo says, and not before
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Dataminers have apparently uncovered the developer behind Princess Peach: Showtime, even as Nintendo continues its very strange pattern of refusing to announce who’s behind its games ahead of launch.
Nintendo regularly partners with third-party studios on all but its biggest games, with notable examples including Intelligent Systems and HAL Laboratory, which are both largely responsible for some of the company’s biggest franchises. Yet in recent years, Nintendo has been reluctant to offer pre-release credit to its partners.
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