Why Doesn't Nintendo Just Make Games Like Zombi U On Their Own?

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Soundwave said:

I love Mario as much as the next guy, but Nintendo's world isn't going to fall apart if they maybe scaled back some of the resources they continually put into making Mario games/spin-offs for a year or two.

Expanding the audience should be a key, and with the blue ocean/fitness game/Wii Sports/music/dance trend having been mined to death the last 6 years, Nintendo needs to bring in fans that aren't just fans of the same 5-8 core Nintendo franchises.

Otherwise you're going to be stuck in GameCube-ville.

Even if Nintendo/Retro can't make a game as good as Halo 4 because it's not their forte ... I'd sure as heck bet money they could've made a game much better than Zombi U or Ninja Gaiden 3 for the Wii U launch if they really made it a priority.

Nope, don't care.

They'd be better off grabbing a third party dev like Silicon Knights and exerting some executive control in order to get a good game, like Eternal Darkness, made.

Like what Other M should have been; that game should have been amazing but they put the wrong director on it.

Nintendo doesn't have the skillset or the design portfolio to put together a game to stack up against the big boys in those genres. It's not going to happen. That's the end of it.