couchmonkey said:
That's the whole point - Nintendo doesn't have to buy exclusives anymore, and Sony and Microsoft are beating each other up over them. This is why Wii was the perfect strategy for Nintendo: the fact is that Nintendo can't compete with these two companies in a ridiculous bidding war for third party exclusives. |
I'm sorry, but have you seen what Nintendo is worth? There have more money than Sony currently. They most definately could bid for exclusives, but they won't. They have always been about giving themselves and their own games the advantage, not 3rd party reliance. Now this is changing, somewhat, but don't think they couldn't bid for or buy any game on the market if they really wanted to. But I suspect if they decided they couldn't live without, say FFXIV for example, instead of buying exclusivity for the game, Nintendo would sooner buyout SE altogether and bring it inhouse.
Now what Nintendo cannot afford to do is subsidize a money-losing games division like MS has always done and Sony is doing currently, as that's their only division.
