68soul said:
Oh, c'mon... they're already doin' it for more than 20 years... and just give me the name of any other company who could afford to work 4 years on the next chapter of a game like Zelda? No, really, money isn't a problem anymore for Nintendo: 3 to 5 billions of BENEFITS each year, for now 5 years, just do the math... In fact, Nintendo's now so rich that they're in the Top 5 of all japanese companies, while Sony isn't even in the Top 20 anymore... and you see what Sony does, in music, in movies, in television and electronics, in gaming, in future 3D tech? Nintendo has enough money to do even better, but what do they do? Fund the next Zelda, the next Galaxy, and the next Pikmin? Prepare for the successors of Wii and DS? OK, all that cost some money, but it's only a small fraction of their fortune... a very, very small fraction, believe me...
Edit: oh, and something else i forgot... Nintendo has only 4000 employees... some of them in the commercial departments, some of them in the hardware departements... which leaves "only" 2000 to 3000 guys actually workin' on games... It's nice, but is it enough to do even more AAA games on both Wii and DS? No, not at all... the only solution is to buy some smaller companies and make them 2nd party, or do some partnerships with some talented teams and indeed, fund their games and make these exclusive to their consoles... just like Sony and Microsoft sometimes do, btw, it's nothing THAT special in this business... But if you prefer to see Nintendo do nothing, sitting on their money, and waiting for 3rd parties to come, be prepared to wait for many many years, as we all have seen they're not comin', at all...
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Nintendo do work with other companies though? Off the top of my head, SEGA made an F-Zero and licensed Mario for the olympics, Namco a Star Fox, Team Ninja a Metroid, their Mario sports games are normally handled by an independent team, they got Camelot to make a new Golden Sun! There are other examples too I'm sure.
I don't think Nintendo really needed an RTS-lite type game in their repetoire and ultimately there are more suitable projects Nintendo could 'help'. LKS is a good game and all but it's not the sort of thing that's going to be a mainstream hit.
