The CG animation and motion capture company Nintendo Pictures, formerly known as Dynamo Pictures, has been revealed to have worked on Sony’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.
VGC spotted the company’s name in the Death Stranding 2 credits. While it might seem surprising to see a Nintendo-owned company work on a PlayStation game, it’s not totally unexpected. Prior to Nintendo’s acquisition of Dynamo in 2022 and re-branding to Nintendo Pictures, the company worked on the original Death Stranding.
Since 2022, Nintendo Pictures’ work on game projects has focused on Nintendo games, including Super Mario Bros. Wonder and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. But it’s possible the work Nintendo Pictures did on Death Stranding 2 was done prior to Nintendo’s buyout, or that a previous contract was in place to allow the company to work on Death Stranding 2 even as a company owned by Nintendo.