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With increased profits this generation, is it possible Nintendo will invest in a new studio?
- Thread starter Cinemikel
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That's the key here. I know too many stories of studios like Telltale or BioWare... Arguably EA, succumbing to simply trying to run too many things at the same time. It increases chance of mismanagement or rushed development cycles. I guess it also depends on what way the company leadership operates. I bet at Nintendo they probably already have multiple general managers with all their subsidiaries, but there's still someone all the way up top having to make a lot of final calls and that's going to get messier the more studios you own as far as I've witnessed as a gamer. I'd love to see Nintendo make way for more productions though, but like you, I just hope it's something they can stand to handle too so they don't get bloated.
Considering they've said Metroid Prime 4 is being made by a "talented new development team" led by Tanabe, they might have already done so.
If there's any studio that would benefit from the Nintendo touch, it's these fellas. Shame they probably don't want to be under another studio after Microsoft.
That was before Nier Automata came out, right? I'm sure with that game being a smash hit the idea of Nintendo buying Platinum is less likely.
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They really don't need to at the moment. They have plenty of partners, the usual suspects (Intelligent Systems, Game Freak, Next Level Games, Monster, Platinum, Camelot, Grezzo, Tantalus, HAL, Sakurai, Creatures) plus new ones such as Mercury Steam, which I guess will be more than happy to keep working on 2D Metroid for them for the time being, given their success, or Ubisoft Milan, which clearly has a profound love for Nintendo and is without a doubt doubling down on their collaboration. Also, they are doing fine licensing their IPs to other medium sized Japanese publishers, such as Koei Tecmo (Hyrule/FE Warriors, Other M) and Namco Bandai (Smash, Pokken, F-Zero in the past), initiative that they probably want to extend to other pubs as well: they've already worked with Capcom on Zelda in the past, with Square on Super Mario RPG, I can see them working together again.
Besides, now they should concentrate on making the recently restructuring work well in first place and transfer their portable focused series to the big screen without hiccups.
Besides, now they should concentrate on making the recently restructuring work well in first place and transfer their portable focused series to the big screen without hiccups.
Rare of today =/= Rare of 15 years ago. Also, buying a company whose most ambitious game in years allegedly bombed, doesn't seem like a sound business decision.
Hope they invest in a western studio or even a korean/chinese studio to diversify their styles of games.
Not sure if it's needed with all hands on deck for the Switch, rather than developers being spread out across two platforms.
Like, take the Mario Kart team for example, if Nintendo continued on with a handheld and home console they would have had to go MK8 -> new handheld MK -> new home console MK, but now instead they had free time to go MK8 -> ARMS -> Switch MK.
Like, take the Mario Kart team for example, if Nintendo continued on with a handheld and home console they would have had to go MK8 -> new handheld MK -> new home console MK, but now instead they had free time to go MK8 -> ARMS -> Switch MK.
I would like to see them invest in Igarashi's studio Artplay. I would say Kojima's as well but his connection seems strong with Sony. I think a strong leader at the studio head would make the acquisition more attractive.
Konami has some good IP which could benefit from Nintendo quality as well.
Konami has some good IP which could benefit from Nintendo quality as well.
Yeah. people asking Nintendo to greatly expand are basically asking for Nintendo to become a microcosm of the video game market... They are almost doing that already. As much as I like Nintendo, it's better if they don't do everything. Third parties already have trouble competing against them (and that's even comparing their sales on other platforms, not just Nintendo's own...)
I mean, how many times have we seen Nintendo being first publisher in Japan? How many time have we heard that same thing for the west, even when they only have one game in the top ten for that month, but all the other lost after 10, and that single one make up a big chunk (sometimes a quarter to a third) of the whole game industry? Nintendo success tend to be either VERY visible like the Wii, or subtle, because it's often spread among more than a dozen different title across almost as many genres.
Oh wow... Sorry for the derailing. o_o