zarx on 07 April 2012
| Joelcool7 said: Zarx I'm not 100% on the legality. But how would securing six major third party IP for a single year land Nintendo an anti competitive lawsuit? Hardware manufacturers have done this many times in the past not to the extent of 6 titles in one year. But in the past Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter, Metal Gear Solid, GTA , Resident Evil all those franchises have been bought exclusively for a specific console. It is not a new business practice and to my knowledge it isn't illegal. Nintendo wouldn't be preventing the companies from releasing games for other systems. Only securing the rights to six IP for one year. I can't see how it would be any different then what Microsoft and Sony have done consistently for a decade or more. Publishers have a right to sell the exclusive rights of an IP to any buyer they want. It is their intellectual property and I do not see a suit arising as the action would not really be unfair or illegal. Combined Sony and MS secure at least six titles a year exclusively from third parties. Nintendo's only difference would be they would be targeting the big IP. Still nothing anti competitive about that. Competitive yes but to my knowledge not illegal! |
buying up all the biggest multiplatform games is pretty clearly anticompetitive the EU have gone after MS for just including Internet explorer with their own OS. 1 or 2 games with some extra DLC etc isn't worth taking it to court but grabbing the lot would be especially if it was revealed to the public that they had payed to delay the games on other platforms.
Not that Nintendo could afford it/it be worth it we would be talking several billions.
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