Vinniegambini said:
We're going to have to agree to disagree as I simply do not understand the point you are trying to make. Nintendo's properties have a broad appeal; as such, Nintendo is able to sell their products in a number of countries and achieve a certain level of success. Creating exclusive software solely for the Western markets limits Nintendo's possibilities to recoup their initial investment in the title. Would the launch of that title be successful in Japan? Would emerging countries such as China and India authorize Nintendo to release such a game in that marketplace? There is a risk. The mature western IP is a crowded market with low-growth opportunities; Nintendo is much better off investing in new Intellectual Properties that have a broad appeal. |
They absolutely would not be successful in Japan. That doesn't matter, because Japan isn't buying consoles anymore. They wouldn't be creating exclusing soley for western audience because they'd still have their western IPs. I think they should create new IPs for those markets too if their current ones don't sell well/aren't authurized there. The same way we don't get some games localized, they wouldn't get games that wouldn't sell there localized. There is not greater than average risk.
The mature western IP is selling and not to Nintendo. They have enough broad appeal IPs. No broad IP will be broad enough to get a Halo fan to buy a Wii U, but a new IP like Destiny might. They need that. And that isn't me saying they need to copy popular games. That's me saying western developers know what western gamers want and Nintendo needs those western developers to make western IPs to get those western gamers they don't have.
