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Soundwave on 03 February 2014
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TheLastStarFighter said:
Soundwave said:

This is "I like playing games from third party X/Y/Z. Nintendo should pay $3 billion for them, even if in reality it would take them 20 years to ever see a profit on that investment" -- the thread.

Half the brands you guys are talking about would have giant collapse in sales in limited only to Nintendo platforms. 

$1 billion dollars could finance 50 new IP aimed at dudebros/matooor players at massive budgets a piece. Resident Evil is a past its prime franchise, Megaman is no more popular anymore than F-Zero or Star Fox is, and Nintendo can't be bothered with either of those. Street Fighter is well past its prime too. The only Capcom series that's in its prime is Monster Hunter, and Nintendo already has exclusivity over that (basically). 

SE's two biggest franchises, FF and DQ, are massive in Japan.  If they were exclusive to Wii U, Wii U would dominate sales there and all 3rd parties would support the system.  Wii U's sales could double or tripple (not just in Japan, but worldwide) with much more software being sold.  Throuh hardware sales, software sales and 3rd party software royalties Nintendo could realistically make back its investment before Wii U's life is over.  And having the SE back catalog and future titles to launch future platforms could be key.  I think now is the time to pick up valuable IP's.  In the future I think content will be more important than advanced technology.  Having brands with sentimental value such as Mario Zelda and FF can influence future purchases.

And none of that would come even close to repaying that $3 billion dollar price tag. 

You'd have to sell 80 million copies of Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy before you see any red from that type of investment. It would be a terrible business move. 

Japanese developers are largely growing increasingly irrelevant in the game space. Final Fantasy is no where the brand it once was and Nintendo already gets all the Dragon Quest games. 

They'd be 100x better off in the game business investing in some new Western studios or even pursuing a deal with Disney that grants them exclusive use over properties like Star Wars, Marvel/Avengers, etc. And that would cost nowhere near as much and probably bump hardware sales higher on a global scale if the games were of sufficent quality.