| pokoko said: It's still a meaningless term, though. I mean, many people considered Insomniac "second-party" and now they're making games for anyone with couple of bucks to spare. If Microsoft flew in tomorrow with a basket of yen, Kamiya would want closer relations with them, too. But you're right, it's all up to Nintendo. Platinum isn't considering so much as they're hoping. |
According to CBOAT, this has already happened!
I don't think it's an entirely meaningless term. For example Game Freak is technically independent, even though they never work with anybody but Nintendo anymore.
I'd be surprised if Nintendo is interested in that kind of a relationship with Platinum. They were getting ready to kill off Fire Emblem if Awakening didn't push 250k units. How are they going to feel about an expensive HD game that isn't even going to sniff 250k? Platinum tends to make a lot of these...
