SaviorX said:
I figure Nintendo already used most of their other IPs. Star Fox is one of the few left.... |
There are lots of wonderful IPs left beyond Star Fox, like Wave Race, Pilot Wings, Donkey Kong Country, Kid Icarus, Mario RPG, Yoshi's Island, etc. I somehow miss the Big N from the late SNES and N64 era. They even took their chances with games as Blast Corps, which I looked at quite reluctant but ended up to be one of my favourites that generation. Rare, which was particially owned by Nintendo manage to make great games, some of them already mentioned by me and others as Killer Instinct, Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie...
Microsoft did a good thing buying the company back in 2002 (though they never achieved to do the same quality games for MS partially to some changes in the staff), and tried to disarm Sony's alliance with Square Enix and other companies later, due to the same strategy.
Nevertheless, I think that Nintendo should still heavily bet for second parties like back on those days. I know that many of us would appriciate it.