VGPolyglot said:
pokoko said:
Honestly, I think buying up studios all over the place is a thing of the past. I don't think it's been good for the gaming industry to have so much under a few umbrellas. We've seen many publishers become bloated and inefficient to the point that they've had to close multiple locations.
I believe the future is going to be full of "second-party" contracts and collaborations. Publishers and platform holders can commision games and if things don't work out, they can walk away without further financial obligations. Studios can pick what they want to work on or pitch their own proposals without being forced into assignments.
I really don't see any need for Nintendo to expand all that much and they certainly don't need to "buy Sega" or anything like some people are proposing. |
Ah, so essentially we're past the direct colonization phase, and have moved onto the neo-colonization phase, where they don't officially own the smaller developers and publishers, but they exert great influence on them.
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Exactly. The peons are much happier when they believe they govern themselves.
Ka-pi96 said:
jardesonbarbosa said:
They can't buy IPs like Ace Attorney, that's unrealistic. And Sega will never sell Bayonetta.
They need to strike aggresive deals with 3rd parties for games and only games, not IPs.
Why not invest in dead franchises like Darksiders, the new System Shock that is struggling to be released, Deus Ex, Fear Effect, Suikoden, Streets of Rage, Jade Empire, Vampire: The Masquerad, Time Splitters, a Chrono Trigger remake. They need to show versatility, not only japanese stuff. Use that Switch money. Most of those games are not huge sellers, but they bring hype, goodwill and improve the library. Plus, those games would never be released anyway. |
Why not? If they were that attached to it I'd assume they'd be funding/making new games in the franchise themselves rather than all but abandoning it unless Nintendo funds it.
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Why would they, though? Right now, they're making something off Bayonetta without lifting a finger. Sega is basically a pimp.
