| Snesboy said: I will answer your question with a question:
Is making money ever a smart decision by X company? |
Yes, but that doesn't fully answer the question. There is more to decisions than just profits, especially for a platform holder like Nintendo. There's opportunity costs and other things to consider also.
In this case though, they hired a new company which ended up making a quality game that has sold extremely well in Japan at least. The opportunity costs are probably low enough, and putting Mario Party on temporary hold may have been itself a great idea now that the recent one became so huge. (I'm a big believer in spacing games out to maintain the value of franchises, especially big franchises)
A game I'm developing with some friends:
www.xnagg.com/zombieasteroids/publish.htm
It is largely a technical exercise but feedback is appreciated.
