Nintendo needs to expand and use all of their IPs on home consoles

[McDonaldsGuy]

Maraccuda said:

McDonaldsGuy said:
I don't know what's up with Nintendo this gen. It's the strangest thing in video game history.

I mean Melee came out a few months after the GameCube was released, Brawl took about 1.5 years after the Wii, but Smash Bros. For Wii U (even the name is lazy) took 2 years! Also Zelda is taking forever. Almost 3 years later!

Nintendo either needs to hire a lot more or outsource their IPs and make some new ones.

I think its just Japanese companies in general that release games slowly. Their gaming industry is a hell of a lot smaller than say America's. But yes Nintendo need to acquire/expand in order to keep up releases and I for one would love if they did.

PLUS Nintendo as a whole prefer to do a lot of the things themselves AND have to work on a handheld and home console simultaneously.

 

If you look at Sony, their Japanese branch really hasnt done much in the past couple of years, and have been heavily reliant on Western devs. Add to the fact they have pretty much dropped focus from the Vita. So it is safe to say Nintendo has done a lot more work than Sony Japan has and is.

You are right, it seems like a lot of Japanese companies are lagging this gen and last gen. HD was a lot more trouble for them than they realized.

The thing is there should be no excuse for Nintendo cause they have to support their console... we should have already had a Zelda game by now, and Smash Bros. should've came out Q1 this year or last year.