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noname2200 on 07 December 2008
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NJ5 said:

Factor 5 is technically great and they have prior experience with making middleware. So here's what Nintendo should do:

Buy out the company. Fund the games they're developing, and when those are done, fund the company to develop a great Wii-only engine which Nintendo can then license out to third parties so that they can make decent games which take advantage of the hardware.

This company is based in America so it should be especially cheap to buy it and fund it, with the weak dollar and all.

 

Don't mean to single you out, as almost half the thread has said this, but don't count on Nintendo swooping in anytime soon. Remember that Iwata specifically addressed the issue of mergers and acquisitions, and said that if buying a company doesn't bring in a great patent, or if the company doesn't have "Nintendo DNA," they won't bother nowadays. And Factor 5, who emphasizes tech above all else, definitely does not meet either requirement.

More to the point, Nintendo isn't in the business of middleware. And Factor5 wouldn't help them make better engines, seeing as how Nintendo develops its hardware in such a way that it can maximize its hardware accordingly. To Nintendo, Factor 5 would be a crappier version of EAD (or whoever makes their engines nowadays).

I really don't see what a second-party Factor 5 would bring to the table for Nintendo. Forum posters may like the possibility, as they did the thought of Nintendo buying Sega (lol!), but it doesn't seem to synch with Nintendo's business plan or philosophy.