Why NSMB Wii 2 will be released in 2011 (no more ioi's avatar!)

[dunno001]

RolStoppable said:

Juma009 said:

I thought taht since Nintendo Published it and Produced it, doesn't that make it Nintendos license? regardless what studio developes it?

Nintendo published it in America and Europe, but it was a game that Enix published in Japan and had no interest in localizing themselves. Really not uncommon, as Nintendo brought over quite a few JRPGs over the years. It doesn't mean that Nintendo owns the IPs though.

Basically what Rol said here. Illusion of Gaia was the sequel to Soul Blazer (Soul Blader in Japan), and was brought over by Nintendo through a licensing deal. A licensing deal does not transfer ownership, rather, it gives permission to the licensee to reproduce a property, and it will also usually specify what format(s) are permitted. If ownerships were transferred, well... both Square and Enix would have been up a creek by Nintendo publishing both Final Fantasy 1 and Dragon Warrior 1 in the USA. NIS would have had quite a few issues by having Atlus publish Disgaea, also...

Deals like this aren't uncommon. The prolific one in recent case that I can think of is Demons' Souls. Done by a 2nd party group by Sony Japan, Atlus USA licensed a version for over here. Even if Atlus wanted to, there's no way they could release a version for the 360 or Wii; they'd never be able to get the license amended to do so. And now, the same studio in Japan responsible for the first one is doing a sequel. There is a chance that Atlus USA will not be able to release this, should Sony choose to bring it out themselves. It's all a big mess, dealing with these things...

Anyway, subject itself. I don't think they're going to want to release a NSMBW2 this soon; the original is still selling spectacularly well. (In 2 weeks, it will join the elite 20 million sold club.) I'm going to side with a few of the others here that have suggested that a 3DS version is more in the makes, since it would help to sell those moreso than a sequel to a Wii game would help to sell more Wiis. They may do one in 2012, as sort of a final push for the Wii, but I don't think it will be a high priority for Nintendo.