Little King's Story post-mortem

[Malachi]

jammy2211 said:

Malachi said:

68soul said:

Galaki said:
Nintendo fund other companies? How about funding their own games? That's the better idea.

 

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...

 

I am sick and tired of this crap about how Nintendo should throw money at third party for nothing. This isn't a charity and they sure as hell shouldn't help company that support their competitor. You want money? Then sign an exclusivity deal with Nintendo and become second party. Hell if you want my advice they should raise the license cost of the big third party that gave them crap support. Give them a choice, either you support our console more or you can forget any profit you make on them, see which company go bankrupt first, ill bet you it won't be Nintendo.

This is not like any third party title pushed console sale for the Wii, it's all been Nintendo. They tried the carrot by give them the fastest growing userbase in history, it's time to try the stick The carrot isn't gonna work anyway because both Sony and Microsoft are ready to go billion in the red to give them a bigger one because that the only thing that differency them and the one who got the most "win".

Bold - Isn't that the sort of arrogance that ballsed up Nintendo's domination post-SNES era? I can tell you now that will definitely NOT help Nintendo's cause. 

No, that the sort of arrogance that put them in control of the whole console industry. What some fail to understand is that third party aren't Nintendo friend, they are their competitor. They are their competitor because the produce game on other console and because they produce copycat of Nintendo game that can hurt sale of say game. Remove all the third party sale for MS, Sony and Nintendo console, what would happen? MS and Sony would not be able to be viable console maker anymore while Nintendo still could, they essentially did that during the N64 and GC era. In the end third party help their competitor more than they could ever help them.

By upping the licensing cost of multiplat game on their system and lowering the licensing cost of exclusive (not timed exclusive game)  they would cut profit to third party that help their competitor more than them and help the one that do support them more. Helping the profitbility of your competitor simply doesn't make any business sense.