TheLastStarFighter said:
The gen has just started so you aren't taking games away from consoles that people have already purchased - you are just encouraging them to buy your console instead of the competition. That's why it needs to be established brands instead of New ip's. Not unlike 3DS with Monster Hunter, I think the console market is shrinking and Nintendo needs to eat into the competition. If the games from square and Capcom are exclusive to Wii U there would essentially be no reason to buy a PS4 in Japan. This would likely lead to further 3rd party support from Konami, etc. Nintendo could use this dominance to build on other markets. With full 3rd party support, a good price and proper promotion the system would thrive.
And making the industry worse is not the topic of the thread. The topic is saving the Wii U which is what I would have done. And making it worse is debatable, with the garbage Capcom and Square have put out lately and the financial losses they have taken. |
No, you think you would save Nintendo with that tactic, a 3 billion dollar investment in Capcom and Square is not a good investment. Believe me about 95% of the western market can do without Capcom/Square games so you're essentially paying 3 billion dollar for the Japanese console market to get what? Final Fantasy (which has seen a noticable decline in the last iterations) and whatever Capcom brings to the table aside from Resident Evil and Street Fighter, you think that is worth this kinda cash? Seriously that part of your plan would hardly change the fate of the Wii U but instead just be a giant money waste.
Also, of course you'd be taking games away from other platforms, is FFXV not announced for the PS4/XB1? How about Tomb Raider? Deep Down? Thief? You're taking those games from their original platforms, where either their fanbases are or where they have the likliest chance to succeed, and bring them over to a significantly weaker platform, forcing downgrades on all of them.
You're taking income streams away from those publishers with making these games exclusive and if the Wii U became the only console in the race in Japan and japanese developers would start flocking to it, it would just mean that the japanese industry'd fall behind its western counterpart even more than it already is, so yes your plan would definitely make the games industry worse.
