This is why I like Nintendo. They're the only one of the big three that is a developer. Nothing wrong with spending money to get IPs though, so long as you use them. I honestly wish Nintendo would get their hands on IPs more often, because I'd like to see what they'd do with them. Imagine if they'd gotten Atlus, and instead of Fire Emblem x Shin Megami Tensei being a cross-over with 3rd party, it was a totally 1st party deal. It would mean a more unified vision and a better game. Other M suffered from being developed by Team Ninja. Sony is a hardware company first and a software publisher second, but they take good care of their developers. Microsoft is...strange. They're a software company first, yet they aren't game designers. Games is a business to them. Even Bungie, the developer of their biggest IP, left them. It creates, for me, a serious crisis of brand identity with them. Their IPs, from the biggest to the smallest, are tied to them by money and laws. Their gaming division ends up specializing in neither hardware nor software as a result. Their strength is in their services and online ecosystem. Not a bad specialization at all, makes them very unique in the industry to be sure, but not something that will hold my interest personally as a gamer.
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