FACTS vs. FICTION – Volume 2

[johnlucas]

Materia-Blade said:

Very informative topic. I'd just like to point that nintendo doesn't own bayonetta or devil's third and that the likes of paper mario, mario kart/party/tennis... are all individual franchises.

Wow. Seems like interest has picked back up on this topic.
Right on time for my return from Club Nintendo hustling & beating The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (AT LAST!).

Yeah I admit I'm talking in future tense on Bayonetta.
Sega has just recently announced their exit from console market (a moment of silence please........).
And on Bayonetta 2, they were only on the label because of franchise-owning rights.
That was REALLY a Nintendo/Platinum Games project.

Nintendo bought Fatal Frame & Xeno & brought them into the fold.
When Nintendo spends money on a franchise, it's going to be theirs.
Nintendo's a known cheapskate so when they spend money you know it's for a reason.
Sega will probably not hold on to these console game franchises so who else is there to take them?
I wonder what that means for Atlus since Sega saved them from the collapsing Index Holdings.
I saw a looooooot of Atlus on that latest Nintendo Direct.
Does that mean that Atlus will join Nintendo as a 2nd party?

They saved Xeno from oblivion turning the Xenogears/Xenosaga series into Xenoblade.
They brought in Fatal Frame & Devil's Third.
Nintendo SPD is a co-developer on Devil's Third. Devil's Third is in the family, my man.
You can count on Nintendo to hold onto publishing rights for Bayonetta.
They need titles like that to diversify their library.

And I mentioned the sub-franchises of Mario only in reference to total franchises not new ones.
They're individual franchises but yet still part of the larger Mario body.
That's why I call them sub-franchises.

Thank you for reading my post, Materia-blade.
Volume 3 is coming soon. So stay tuned for more informativeness.

John Lucas