| Lucas-Rio said:
What can make you think that High Voltage can be a success under Nintendo? I do not see any basis in quality from this studio. It is like picking a random bad-average studio and saying that Nintendo can turn them into gold. HVS has not shown any potential in anything so far except at hyping average games. I still fail to see why Nintendo should buy THIS studio from all the others available options. it would be cheap, though. |
Please, actually read what I said in the OP. I address exactly that point.
HVS have their strengths - their Quantum3 engine is the most technically capable engine on the Wii, beating out even Nintendo's own game engines, which shows their technical capabilities. Their game universe developed for The Conduit and expanded in the sequel shows great promise in terms of concept. Their AI system is quite decent, too. But their weaknesses just happen to be Nintendo's greatest strengths - game design and artistic design.
Nintendo could buy any studio, but not any studio would be a good match. The best choices for Nintendo are studios that complement what Nintendo does best, because then Nintendo can bring their strengths to the studio, and turn them from an average studio with a bit of talent in a few areas into a megastar studio that has it all covered. They did it with Retro. They did it with Rare. And in my opinion, they would do it with HVS, too.
