RolStoppable said:
badgenome said:
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Joelcool7 said:
A major problem with Sony is their over all control over their developers. Sony needs to hand the reigns over to their developers. Go to their studios and say surprise me. Give them adequate funding to make their dream game. Just imagine what David Jaffe could have done with full control of his IP both new and old. Maybe if they had left Naughty Dog to create the Uncharted they had originally envisioned.
Sony doesn't give their developers freedom. Nintendo is so successful because their major developers have tons of freedom. Microsoft pushes their developers a lot harder then Nintendo but they focus on establishing IP.
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That seems to me a pretty spectacular misdiagnosis of the situation. Leaving aside the fact that Nintendo has been pretty much mailing it in for a while now, relying on the same old IPs, they also have the reputation of being extremely controlling. It was only a few years ago that Retro saw a mass exodus because Nintendo gave them so little creative leeway. I don't think that's such a bad thing, either, if you look at what too much developer freedom did to Gran Turismo Forever and what it's currently doing to The Last Guardian. But... wow. You got it completely ass backwards there.
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What makes his diagnosis even worse is that Nintendo has become significantly less successful since they have given their developers more freedom. They basically left it to Shigeru Miyamoto to make the final decisions on the 3DS hardware and the first year's software lineup. Cleaning up that mess has cost them a lot of money.
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But Rol, we weren't talking about Nintendo's control of core studio in-house developers (EAD, Team Ico). We were talking about control over external 1st party developers and 2nd party developers (Hal, ND, Insomniac, Retro, Rare, ...), so as to compare with Sony. Maybe I got this wrong, but I don't know if we were unclear or if I'm the one who lost track.
One way or the other, it all depends on the developer. Miyamoto is more the exception than the rule. He is very high up at Nintendo, even in the board of directors I believe :S
http://www.google.com/finance?q=nintendo
