If you're driving at what i think you're driving at, i don't think Nintendo is going to do anything else too unique with the Wii U: there may be third party partnerships, but they'll be more in line with Hyrule Warriors, for instance, which paid off pretty well and is less risky all around.
The trouble with Platinum is they make games that entail a lot of nice, expensive spectacle, but put them in very niche genres. Bayonetta is their best bet because it's the least weird, in a genre that *can* sell well under the right conditions, and Bayo herself is, of course, pretty appealing. But they need to figure out a way to make their projects cost-effective.
Scalebound will be interesting to watch, in terms of how ambitious it is production-value-wise and if they can reach a bigger audience for once.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
