| AstroGamer said: Why would buying Capcom not make sense but buying SEGA would? Capcom still has a number of great IPs as well as decent staff. for example, Dino Crisis, Onimusha, Breath of Fire, Monster Hunter and Megaman. Most of these are getting minimal use. SEGA Sammy's greatest worth is in Football Manager and Pachinko as well as having the Total War and Company of Heroes franchise which do not translate well to Nintendo Consoles so SEGA becomes pretty poor investment unless they move to the pc market. Only Sonic, the SEGA All Stars series and Virtua Fighter would be IPs that would be decent investments when sticking to consoles and maybe Yakuza but there's a huge disparity between the console and the game's audience. Capcom makes much more sense as an acquistion due to being at least 1/10 of the cost as SEGA while being pretty equal in what they bring. Nintendo doesn't need IPs, they have plenty of those. What they need is staff. Konami would be the best choice since they had dipped their feet already in QoL technologies though now that Iga left, there is less value in Konami in terms of talent |
I disagree. Staff, yes. But they also need more IPs. You'll have to excuse me, but while you're correct that Capcom has a few strong IPs left in Street Fighter, Resident Evil, etc., it just isn't the same.
With Sega we're talking about: Sonic, Nights, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Phantasy Star, Samba de Amigo, Virtua Fighter, Sega Rally, House of the Dead, Shinobi, Shenmue, Outrun, Hang On, Alien Syndrome, Aled Kidd, Wonderboy, Chakan, Clockwork Knight, Bug, Panzer Dragoon, the rights to the Shining Force series, not to mention full ownership of the Bayonetta franchise.
I just think there's a lot more varied and classic franchises worth owning, that Nintendo and their partners might actually do something with, as opposed to Sega who barely uses any of them anymore.
I would agree that Konami is at least a better candidate than Capcom, because with that Nintendo would be owning both Konami and Hudson Soft's libararies, twice the bang for the buck. And again, maybe Nintendo could actually do some good with some of Konami's more dormant/misused franchises, not to mention Castlevania and Metal Gear being Nintendo system exclusive. And Bomberman of course, which Konami is wasting the ownership of.
But I still think there could be a lot of value in owning Sega.
