Sad that Brownies is dead though.T_T
Thinking about it though. Nintendo is really damn good at taking those talented devs from other company lol. It is like everytime Nintendo do a collab with some team, the devs will move to Nintendo lol.O_O
Brownies lives!
Nintendo does tend to work with lots of Japanese startups from seasoned vets though. Alpha Dream (Square), Grezzo (Square), Skip (Square), Vanpool (Square), Mistwalker (Square), Genius Sonority (Chunsoft), Sandlot (Human), Platinum (Capcom), Arika (Capcom), Hexadrive (Capcom), Dimps (Capcom/SNK), Eighting (Toaplan), Paon (Data East), Good-Feel (Konami), Prope (Sega), Artoon/Arzest (Sega), Grounding (Sega), Valhalla (Tecmo), Q-Games (Argonaut), Vitei (Argonaut) and probably some others I'm forgetting.