Pachter: Nintendo Needs More Exclusives to Beat PS3 and Xbox360

[DanneSandin]

happydolphin said:

DanneSandin said:

Well, getting Bayo2 was kind of... by chance, if you will. Platinum had been rejected by Sega, so Nintendo stepped in. But I don't know how often that happens. I imagine it to be quite difficult for Ninty to swoop in and hand out money to smaller studios...  And I think that THQ really wants to go multiplat with all their games; Darksiders2 probably cost a few 100k to port over, and if they sell 300k copies they would have made back their money (I think). And considering the difficulties THQ is in I can't see how they only would opt to release games on Wii U... The chance of failure is much higher that way.

THQ is out of options bro, on the brink of bankruptcy.

This isn't some stroke of luck, the industry has been plagued with closing studios this generation, it's an opportunity for Nintendo, not some scarce occurrence. Midway (Bankrupt in 2009), Acclaim (Bankrupt in 2004), THQ (on the brink of bankruptcy), and many many others that I don't have off the top of my head, as well as a slew of smaller budding indie studios just begging for financing.

But the question is if THQ would go exclusive for a while (or a whole generation)... They'd lose out on their PS360 fans that bought Darksiders1&2 and many other games that haven't shown up on a Nintendo console...

Yes, it could be a fantastic opportunity for Nintendo to get 2ns party studios, or simply giving them projects to do and paying them to develop games. But have they? Not as far as I know. The only game they swooped up is Bayo2... And that's a fault from Nintendo imo. They're not doing enough to secure games.