| t3mporary_126 said: Just read most of the replies in this thread and it seems the only thing Nintendo really lost under Iwata was Media Molecule and Skylanders exclusivity deal. Big franchises, but definitely not signs of Nintendo being Japanese bias considering the points the OP suggested. |
Really?
Nintendo funded Japanese 2nd party titles -- Endless Ocean 1/2, Dynamic Slash, Cosmic Walker (cancelled), Pandora's Tower, Sin & Punishment 2, Bayonetta 2, Devil's Third, Fatal Frame IV, Fatal Frame V, The Last Story, The Wonderful 101, etc. etc.
Nintendo funded 2nd party titles (Western) -- LEGO City, Excitetruck/bots (which is basically based off the Excite) franchise.
That's it. Nintendo doesn't fund/finance anything from a Western studio unless it's from Retro/Next Level/Monster Games and even then those studios are basically not allowed to work on anything that isn't a Nintendo IP or IP spin-off. And they're only allowed to work on one game at a time.
Seems to me like this is a pretty clear bias against Western devs, either intentionally or through Iwata's own policy of micro-management.
Meanwhile Nintendo's happy to fund things like Wonderful 101, which apparently had a large budget at that, and proceeded to flop in Japan and then everywhere else worldwide. Would they allow a Western studio to do that? No way.
