| padib said:
Yeah, I never said the kinect marketing was bad, I was just saying. You know what I mean ;) Just saying the Kinect Sports got a bit of a push, that's all. The studios thing, though, Nintendo is doing that honestly. They own as MrT-Tar said Monolith, they own Brownie Brown, which is comprised of former Secret of mana developers. I mean there's more but off the top of my head... The full list @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_development_teams#Nintendo_1st_Party_Developers_.28Worldwide.29 Thing is, lots of these seem to work on pre-existing Nintendo IPs. Monolith and Brownie Brown are better examples of what we're looking for, as they're working on new IPs. Nintendo also worked closely with Mistwalker to produce Last Story. But the best would be for a company to work on an existing non-Nintendo IP, as Capcom did for Resident Evil IV, or Factor 5 did for Rogue Squadron 2 in the cube days, but these are off the top of my head. More Tri-force-ish partnerships (Nintendo-Sega-Namco), more Phantasy Star Online I & II cube-only exclusives, Nintendo needs to do everything they can to push that wagon forward. Going cube on it won't work, they need to triple, quintuple their efforts. And while pushing these projects forward with 3rd parties (by delegation), they need to internally keep making those casual and also their fun games to maintain their evergreen audiences. |
Even with those studios they haven't even got out a Wii Zelda yet. Not to mention the other classic franchises with no iteration that Nintendo fans wanna see again.
I only really see maybe Capcom giving them worth while titles( saleswise in japan and the west) and that's mostly because of their history as only RE4 is the only game that comes to mind that did well on Wii. Is delegation sufficient to persuade the Western 3rd parties who have had little success on the Wii in the first place to give them exclusive content? These games are gonna be expensive at PS360 level of graphics and whatnot.
I do understand your point but it just seems to me that somethings gotta give. They have to get more studios or start paying out for exclusives the way M$ and Sony used to.
