Give Us Back The Old Nintendo (Nowgamer article)

[LordTheNightKnight]

Doobie_wop said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Well the point is that Nintendo isn't that far behind the other first parties, or even the third parties. Note that taken individually, each developer has put out fewer IPs each generation. So singling out Nintendo is wrong, since it's not just them.

Yes, but Nintendo also publishes games. There's nothing stopping them (the most successful gaming company) from investing into new IPs from other developers. Demon's Souls was pretty much broken before Sony Japan came in and fixed everything. Modnation Racer's wouldn't have ever existed if Sony hadn't thrown money at United Front. Little Big Planet wouldn't even exist if Phil Harrison didn't take in Media Molecule and finance the project.

The list goes on and on. Sony have put legitimate effort into financing and co developing great new projects and they've even gone out of their way to help support Third Parties with games like Bayonetta and helping small  developers by creating the Phyre Engine (a free to use game engine, now being used by Atlus, Nippon Ichi, Gust, Compile Heart, Thatgamecompany and Codemasters). Microsoft have done similar things.

Nintendo have been very successful this gen, I'd expect this kind of support coming from them, instead of the Third Place console.

That still is a different thing than making a new IP. Plus Nintendo has been working with developers when asked for. The problem is that few have been willing to make games for their systems in order for Nintendo to work with them.