| kylohk said: When you think of it, Nintendo should aim to at least buy a significant amount of shares off some of the main developers, or make even more good second parties. At least this gives them some more leverage with the gamer games, kind of like Rare in the N64 days. |
That was the strategy during the Yamauchi days. The second party studios that I know of include Rare, Silicon Knights, and Left Field, We know what happened to Rare. Left field did not want follow Nintendo's practices and Silicon Knights left. Now Nintendo is only working with proven partners and are not interested in that old second party system. I probably summed this up badly but you can use google to find Iawata's stance on aquiring second party studios.
If Nintendo is successful at the moment, it’s because they are good, and I cannot blame them for that. What we should do is try to be just as good.----Laurent Benadiba
