Igarashi: DS the only platform in which it's acceptable to publish 2-D games

[Avinash_Tyagi]

burgerstein said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

burgerstein said:
Avinash, why do you assume Nintendo only has the capacity to make a small amount of games, and can never increase that capacity? 2D Mario and 2D Metroid may be more diverisfied than 2D and 3D Mario, but both 2D and 3D of Mario and Metroid is more diversified and more profitable than either of those situations. There's no good reason they can't pump out a 2D Mario every year as well as making a 3D Mario every 3 years.

But the issue is, that they have a limited capacity, that's the point, as we can clearly see they can't make every game, which is why games get farmed out like Other M, and games take years to come out, so the issue then becomes what is the most efficient way to use the capacity they do have, and that is to cut out 3D or use it very sparingly and utilize 2D more.

 

Sure if they had unlimited capacity, then yeah make hundreds of different types of games, 2D, 3D whatever, but they can't

But they can! You just said games get farmed out, which means they can make more games. It's not like Nintendo can't hire more people with their billions of dollars. They'd be fools to make only 2D games.

They can make more games within limits, Iwata has already said they don't want to expand too far because it risks their company culture, and with farming out a game you have to be watchful that it doesn't come out badly and ruin your property, these are concerns for any company, but if you can produce more games, while not worrying about expanding too much or wrecking your properties, wouldn't that be preferred?