| Veknoid_Outcast said: I think this is right on the money. Nintendo has a lot of genres covered: action, platform, action-adventure, RPG, simulation, sports, fighting , racing. But outside Star Fox, and now Kid Icarus, it doesn't really have a shooter. Nintendo could take some staff from Retro, pair them with ex-employees from Eurocom and Volition, and make a first-person or third-person shooter. That would get people talking. |
| Vinniegambini said: Two things. Firstly, Nintendo has lost the Final Fantasy audience, they need to capture that crowd back. Maybe the newly-announced X will do just the trick but they need a big budget franchise in the veins of Final Fantasy. Secondly, they need a third-person shooter adventure series in the veins of Uncharted, Mass Effect and Tomb Raider. They have lost that market since the N64 and need to capture that crowd back as well. |
I agree with both of these. Even if a Nintendo published FPS/TPS/RPG doesn't sell Halo/Gears/Final Fantasy like numbers, if it helps change the perception about Nintendo consoles and show consumers that they can have that type of gameplay experience on it, that's a win. If Nintendo can shake the perception as "the secondary console" and show that it can be the "cover all bases" console, it's a win.
And from a public opionion standpoint, Final Fantasy it at it's lowest point since inception after the three FF13 games and the horrible start of FF14. If you're going to build an RPG to capture that starving JRPG crowd, now's the time to do it.
