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Ljink96 on 02 October 2019
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RaptorChrist said:
Ljink96 said:
Damn, that sucks....but to tell you the truth, I wasn't a huge fan of M&L. Maybe now Paper Mario can shine now. But who knows, Nintendo probably will end up picking up key figures of Alpha Dream and form a new 1st Party studio. Man I didn't know their debts were so large. Their games weren't selling so hot recently so I guess the writing was kind of on the wall.

Yeah, that seems about right. I bought the remake of Superstar Saga, which I assume didn't sell very well, given that I don't remember hearing much about it.

So this company has nothing to do with Nintendo, but Nintendo paid them to make the game? In situations like that wouldn't Nintendo usually give them a flat price anyways and profit from sales would go back to Nintendo?

I suppose it would make sense for Nintendo to offer them an incentive to make the game well, and therefore give them a fraction of the sales profits, but how much would sales of those games have mattered to their bottom line?

Yup, Superstar Saga, which is a great game, the remake didn't do too hot. I don't even remember seeing it anywhere in the charts. Nor Bowser's Inside Story Remake. But yes, Alphadream is a 3rd party developer that happened to be contracted by Nintendo to make M&L games. I would imagine Nintendo funding most of the development with Alphadream maybe getting a percentage of the profits like you pointed out.

But keep in mind, Alphadream also had other projects they were working on that took up resources and funding. They even supposedly had PS4 projects in development. I think this will end up similar to what happened to Hudson Soft. Although Hudson Soft didn't go bankrupt they did have banking issues that Konami essentially saved them from. Hudson Soft developed a lot of Nintendo Software, the most popular being Mario Party. So when they went under Konami's Wing they took key developers from Hudson and fused them with ND Cube which still makes Mario Party games today. I think Nintendo didn't want to inherit that debt, so they'll do something similar to this.