HappySqurriel said:
Soundwave said: I hate to say it, but the only third party dev worth owning for Nintendo would be Square-Enix. Japanese devs have really fallen off a cliff. Even Capcom is somewhat moot as Nintendo has Monster Hunter under their wing now (and given the Vita's performance, that's not unlikely to be going anywhere) and had Resident Evil exclusivity before and it didn't do much. For Nintendo to buy Sega it would have to be a "Sammy wants to dump Sega and is willing to basically gift them to Nintendo at a bargain price" type thing. If this were to happen, I'd basically make Toshihiro Nagoshi the lead of the Sega-Nintendo division and bring back Yuji Naka to the company (the other Sonic creator already works at NST for Nintendo). |
I would argue that there is more value in Sega's IPs than Square Enix at the moment ...
To put numbers on it, there are probably 12 to 18 franchises that Sega owns that could reliably produce a 1+ million selling game (and a couple that could produce a 5+ million selling game) if they were produced at the same kind of quality level as most Nintendo games; and most of these games would be relatively inexpensive to produce because they would (ideally) be 2.5D games where realistic graphics are less important than style.
In contrast, the value in Square Enix is franchises that are gigantic blockbusters that require massive teams and a gigantic cost to produce.
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Thats bull, with Deus Ex, Final Fantasy, and Tomb Raider under Square Enixes thumb, this looks like a new start for them. Sega has no games, nor the budgets behind their titles to have mass appeal.