Gnizmo said:
Why would they try to buy MH3 with advertising in the region it will release in way later, and almost certainly sell less in? More likely Nintendo is doing this to build a better relationship with Capcom by trying to expand a series that clearly has sales potential. Small risk for a large gain in inter-company politics that have not always been the best. In other words, they are buying future games. |
I wouldn't be that surprised if Nintendo is beginning to do similar things to encourage quality third party support this generation that they did in the previous generation, potentially with better long term results. If Nintendo gives Monster Hunter a moderately large marketing campaign, and "loans" Capcom an IP for them to make a high quality exclusive game, in exchange for two more high quality exclusive games released it is a good move for Nintendo all around; and if Nintendo does this will multiple publishers (Capcom, Namco, Tecmo, Sega, ect.) and they all take advantage of the opportunity Nintendo could end up with several big "Nintendo" games in a year, along with many more big third party releases.
The unfortunate thing is that Nintendo should have never stopped this strategy ...
