| Roma said: No I am not making rules to make Nintendo seem like the winner here. Buying new companies or exclusive rights to a game is different than making the game yourself. A company that buys other developers is either out of ideas themselves or really like what they see in a game owned by another developer. |
How is it different? Can you prove to me that the game would have been the same without the involvement of the publisher? Can you prove that the people working at Nintendo wouldn't have made the same game if they didn't work there?
From a financial and business aspect there's a difference and it's clearly better to fund teams in house, but from the aspect of creative merit there really is no difference. Nintendo either gives Miyamoto a sallary or they buy a development team like Retro Studios. The end result is a game that would not have existed without them and the merit is the same.
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