THQ hired the third-party Game Boy developer HotGen to develop the game, which they described as "the most authentic Star Wars adventure on the Game Boy Color system".
With their own developers busy working on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Bethesda reached out to Obsidian Entertainment, a company founded by several former members of Interplay's original Fallout developers Black Isle Studios, to develop the game.
Nagoshi was initially concerned about differences in opinion between the two companies, and mentioned "If Nintendo planned to hold our hands through development, I would have suggested they develop the game themselves.
Nier was originally intended to be exclusive to the Xbox 360, but after deciding to also develop the game for PlayStation 3, the developers decided to further divide the Japanese release of the game.
Iwata left the meeting and assigned nine developers to the project, giving them only 90 days in which to develop the game.
"The priority is to develop the game globally".
Fifa exists to develop the game for all around the world.
To develop the game worldwide, the R&A spend £4m-£5m each year.
Jeff Miller, CEO of Moneyhorse Games, says he was motivated to develop the game by his fascination with North Korea.
However, the original ambition to develop the game in 6-8 monthashas proved to be a drastic underestimate.
In December 2012, Molyneux's small studio, 22 Cans, received over half a million pounds via the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to develop the game.
