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Does Nintendo Need More First Party studios?

Nintendo is fine just the way they are 14 11.97%
 
Yes they can't support the Wii U alone 68 58.12%
 
They can just keep paying... 8 6.84%
 
I don't care 4 3.42%
 
See results 6 5.13%
 
MAKE STAR FOX U NOW! 17 14.53%
 
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Proxy-Pie on 01 July 2013
Jumpin said:
Egann said:
I think they made foolish decisions on what titles to make for the Wii U. They have plenty of IP's to attract all sorts of customers with, but they picked Mario and Donkey Kong.

They should have gone with Zelda, Metroid, or F-Zero.

Zelda is a great IP, and there is a Zelda game coming out this year with Mario and Donkey Kong.

I wouldn't say the same of Metroid or F-Zero though. F-Zero is perhaps Nintendo's least interesting recurring IP in existence... The only good thing about F-Zero is the excuse for Captain Falcon as a character in Smash Bros.

Metroid is EASILY Nintendo's most overrated IP. It's an empty, boring experience. I have played 4 of them, original Metroid, Super Metroid, Metroid Prime Wii, and Metroid Prime 3D - all of them were boring after 90 minutes tops.

In addition, Metroid and F-zero franchises have had many generations to sell well, but they never have. The lowest selling main-series DKC and Mario titles have both sold better than the highest selling Metroid and F-Zero titles.

Idk how the fuck you disliked Super Metroid and what the hell is Metroid Prime 3D?



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angelocp on 01 July 2013

you want more mario games??!!



eres el unico que puede tomar la desicion que nadie mas puede... la correcta

Egann on 01 July 2013
Baddman said:

hmmm not sure if you know this but monolith is already owned by nintendo been that way since 2006

No I didn't, actually. This is what comes of assuming Nintendo's 100% ownership would be in the first sentence on it's wikipedia article. Instead We get a mention on their work on mobile phones and Nintendo gets bumped to the end of the second paragraph in "History." Grumble Grumble Grumble.



Proxy-Pie on 02 July 2013
angelocp said:
you want more mario games??!!


We want a real 3D Mario and F-Zero,Starfox,Metroid, etc



Mensrea on 02 July 2013
Jumpin said:
Mensrea said:
RazorDragon said:
Mensrea said:
Yeah, half of their IP's never get new installments.


Not true. What about Punch-Out and Kid Icarus? Those were ressurrected from the depths of Nintendo history. Also, I do agree that they need to have more 1st party studios, so they could release lower-selling games alongside the high-selling ones. Right now, they release the high-selling games first and some of the low-sellers at the end of the generation, and that's not exactly a good thing.


What about F-Zero, Starfox, wave race, 1080p snowboarding, and Metroid? You showed exceptions, but generally Nintendo ignores some great franchises.

There have been 3 main series Mario games, 3 Zeldas, and 4 Metroid's in the last 2 gens. With Metroid, that's not ignoring a franchise, that's over-producing an overrated franchise.

If your only going to count 3D mario, then sure there have been more Metroid. Doing so though is just a way to drive home your point, and doesn't accurately reflect how it actually is. Since the DS/Wii era, there have been: 8 Mario games (only counting platformers) with one on the way, there have been 4 Zelda games with 3 on the way, there have been 3 Metroid games with none on the way (two of those three were godawful, and don't even really count)

So really, there has been one "true" Metroid game in the last gen. 

 

Calling it overatted? Play games like Skyward Sword, and SM3DL and talk to me about overrated. 




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Proxy-Pie on 02 July 2013
Mensrea said:
Jumpin said:
Mensrea said:
RazorDragon said:
Mensrea said:
Yeah, half of their IP's never get new installments.


Not true. What about Punch-Out and Kid Icarus? Those were ressurrected from the depths of Nintendo history. Also, I do agree that they need to have more 1st party studios, so they could release lower-selling games alongside the high-selling ones. Right now, they release the high-selling games first and some of the low-sellers at the end of the generation, and that's not exactly a good thing.


What about F-Zero, Starfox, wave race, 1080p snowboarding, and Metroid? You showed exceptions, but generally Nintendo ignores some great franchises.

There have been 3 main series Mario games, 3 Zeldas, and 4 Metroid's in the last 2 gens. With Metroid, that's not ignoring a franchise, that's over-producing an overrated franchise.

If your only going to count 3D mario, then sure there have been more Metroid. Doing so though is just a way to drive home your point, and doesn't accurately reflect how it actually is. Since the DS/Wii era, there have been: 8 Mario games (only counting platformers) with one on the way, there have been 4 Zelda games with 3 on the way, there have been 3 Metroid games with none on the way (two of those three were godawful, and don't even really count)

So really, there has been one "true" Metroid game in the last gen. 

 

Calling it overatted? Play games like Skyward Sword, and SM3DL and talk to me about overrated. 


SS was a great one to introduced new Zelda players (I've introduced my cousins, GF, a few friends) and the motion control was cool IMO, and 3D land was great for a handheld Mario game, what's wrong with them? XD



ghettoglamour on 02 July 2013

They need new games. I heard that at Nintendo they've not replaced or resetted their routers since years because they're afraid of getting a new IP.



Game of the year 2017 so far:

5. Resident Evil VII
4. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
3. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
2. Horizon Zero Dawn
1. Super Mario Odyssey

Proxy-Pie on 02 July 2013
ghettoglamour said:
They need new games. I heard that at Nintendo they've not replaced or resetted their routers since years because they're afraid of getting a new IP.


they have lots of new IPs, people just tend to ignore them :P (hint: the highest game ever sold is a new IP from nintendo :P)

what they need is more devs, the amount of devs who work on an Assassin's Creed game is equilivant to Nintendo's entire employees :P



Locknuts on 02 July 2013

They need to grab more opportunities like Platinum Games. They scored two great looking games out of that deal, now they just need to do the same in the west. Like Iwata said: it only takes one game to sell a console, but increasingly those games are now coming from western developers.