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foxtail on 25 August 2014
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Soundwave said:
foxtail said:
Soundwave said:

Epic Mickey and GoldenEye Reloaded are not Nintendo financed titles.  

Were they not timed exclusives?  Some form of financing was probably there from Nintendo.


Pretty sure that's a no.  They just couldn't be released simultaneously on PS3/360 because they were built for the Wii first and foremost which is a fairly different architecture from the PS3/360. 

Nintendo did publish Epic Mickey in Japan though, and I think the first was a Wii exclusive too.

I think Nintendo should try to explore more exclusives with existing licenses like they did with games I mentioned earlier.

Soundwave said:

Why is Nintendo so reluctant to give a Western dev a shot at an original IP?  

As for original IP's from developers - they should bring something new to the table.

For example Eternal Darkness was funded because it was a totally novel world, concept and story for a videogame that Silicon Knights had been working on for years and also had other unique elements like sanity effects.  Geist too had the unique gameplay elements of ghost possessions.  Both these 2 games were lacking in the gameplay department though.

Nowadays they couldn't get away with being so laxed in the gameplay department and I think gameplay should be on top of the list of any new IP.