I want to be a game artist, and I'm currently deciding between two universities: Digipen and Gnomon. If I went with Digipen, Valve and Nintendo of America would pretty much be my only AAA studio options in the area for a job. My concern with Nintendo of America is the amount of actual game development they do. I know they have a division for game dev (NST), and have worked on a few obscure titles over the years, but I went to apply on the site, and the only fitting position they had was "Game Development" and didn't even bother distinguishing between art, design, and programming (which worries me). If I were to work for Nintendo, I'd want to be an artist for a title like Legend of Zelda, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, or Splatoon--and I just don't know how likely that is at Nintendo of America in Redmond.
Anybody have any experience/knowledge on this?