Next Level Games

Next Level Games
Founded: August 13, 2002 Founder: David Catlin Douglas Tronsgard Eric Randall Jason Carr President: Eric Randall Parent / owner: Nintendo Divisions / subsidiaries: N/A
Website: www.nextlevelgames.com

Next Level Games is a Canadian video game development studio, based in Vancouver. Founded in August of 2002, the studio is best known for its work with Nintendo.

As a result of the success they found with their Nintendo-based works, the company announced on January 9, 2014, that they would be working exclusively with the company for the foreseeable future. On January 5, 2021, Nintendo announced that it had acquired the company after purchasing 100% of the shares from the comapny's owners, making Next Level Games a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo; the acquisition is expected to be finalized on March 1.

Games published by Nintendo

Game	Year	Console
Super Mario Strikers	2004	Nintendo GameCube
Mario Strikers Charged	2007	Wii
Punch-Out!!	2009	Wii
Doc Louis's Punch-Out!!	2009	WiiWare (Club Nintendo-exclusive)
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon	2013	Nintendo 3DS
Metroid Prime: Federation Force	2016	Nintendo 3DS
Luigi's Mansion 3	2019	Nintendo Switch
Mario Strikers: Battle League	2022	Nintendo Switch

External links

Next Level Games on other NIWA Wikis:
StrategyWiki Super Mario Wiki

• Official website
• Official Facebook page
• Next Level Games on Wikipedia

References

1st & 2nd Party / Owned Internal divisions Nintendo EPD • EAD* • SPD* • SDD* Nintendo PTD • BDD • SDD* • IRD* • RED* • Nintendo Network Services R&D1* • R&D2* • R&D3* Subsidiaries Nintendo of America (Treehouse) • NST • NTD Nintendo of Europe • NERD Nintendo Australia Nintendo of Korea iQue Nintendo Leisure System Co., Ltd.* Nintendo Sales Co., Ltd. Nintendo Pictures Nintendo Systems Co., Ltd. 1-UP Studio • Mario Co., Ltd.* • Marigul Management* • Mario Club • Mobile21* • Monegi* • Monolith Soft • Nintendo Cube • Next Level Games • Project M* • Project Sora* • RandnetDD Co., Ltd.* • Retro Studios • Shiver Entertainment • SRD Owned / Affiliated Seattle Mariners* • The Pokémon Company • Warpstar Inc. * – Former / Defunct
3rd Parties / Partners 8-4 • AlphaDream* • Ambrella* • Argonaut Games* • Arika • Artoon* • Arzest • AS Tokyo Studios • Bandai Namco • Capcom • Camelot • Cing* • Creatures Inc. • DeNA • DigiNin* • DigitalScape • Eighting • Flagship* • Fuse Games* • Game Freak • Ganbarion • Genius Sonority • Good-Feel • Grezzo • HAL Laboratory • Hatena • Hudson Soft* • indieszero • iNiS • Intelligent Systems • Jamsworks • Jupiter • Koei Tecmo • Kuju • Left Field Productions* • Level-5 • Mistwalker • Monster Games • Noise • Paon • PlatinumGames • Q-Games • Rare* • Red Entertainment • Sega (Atlus) • Sora Ltd. • skip • Softnica • Spike Chunsoft • Square Enix • St.GIGA* • Syn Sophia • TOSE • Treasure • Vanpool* • Vitei * – Former / Defunct
Key employees Presidents Founder: Fusajiro Yamauchi Successors: Sekiryo Kaneda • Hiroshi Yamauchi • Satoru Iwata • Tatsumi Kimishima • Shuntaro Furukawa NOA: Minoru Arakawa • Tatsumi Kimishima • Reggie Fils-Aimé • Doug Bowser NOE: Satoru Shibata • Koji Miyake Managers, etc. Internal Creative Fellow: Shigeru Miyamoto Technology Fellow: Genyo Takeda EPD: Shinya Takahashi PTD: Ko Shiota NST: Shigeki Yamashiro Subsidiaries NNSD: Yusuke Beppu Monolith Soft: Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi 1-Up Studio: Gen Kadoi ND Cube: Hidetoshi Endo Retro: Michael Kelbaugh NERD: Alexandre Delattre