Wooster wrote: I remember there was wishful thinking that Nintendo would buy CiNG, but I don't know that Nintendo owns any of the properties. Mind, Capcom publishes Professor Layton and Brain training, but certainly does not own either franchise.
Pretty simple: in the credits for Last Window (most recent example), it does say 'All rights reserved by Nintendo and Cing'.
Actually, it's even worse with Another Code: R, as they do not even mention Cing, it just says 'All rights reserved by Nintendo'.
If Cing actually owned the right for the series, they would be mentionned on the Another Code: R booklet, and Nintendo wouldn't be mentioned in the copyright for Last Window either if they didn't own at least part of the rights (at best, we might have something like 'licensed to and published by Nintendo', like 999). For example, I doubt there's written 'All rights reserved by Level 5 and Nintendo' in the Layton game, right? I can't say, since I don't own any Layton game, but I never saw a mere publisher getting a mention in the copyright section of any game they did not publishe (aka different from the developer).
I don't have any definite proof they own the said rights, but all copyright details seems to indicate they actually do.
And you can't compare Cing games with Layton for example, because Nintendo only publishes the game in NA/Europe, not in Japan. Whereas for Cing games, Nintendo does publish it in all territories.
Quote: I remember there was wishful thinking that Nintendo would buy CiNG
Of course you remember it... it was mine :p
@post above mine: he meant 'Nintendo', not 'Capcom' ;)
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