spemanig said:
Soundwave said:
Do you actually think Nintendo would do any of that? I doubt it. Nintendo's shown they have zero interest in this. Adelman's insightful comments about Nintendo's internal structure in Japan also indicates why this would never happen, too many old farts on their board of directors would staunchly oppose such moves. Nintendo's had amply oppurtunity to expand into the West, they simpy don't want to, in fact if they did it would be a threat to many on Nintendo's Japanese board of directors (what happens if the US division gets too strong? What happens if like Rare they start making games that begin to outshine the Japanese games?).
Yamauchi could cut through all that political BS, but Iwata can't. He has to play ball with the board.
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I never said that they would do that. I said that that's what they must do if they want to get third parties without bribing them. They need to cultivate that ecosystem internally before they can ever expect improvement externally. They need to redefine what it means to be a Nintendo fan.
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Well I think we all know they're never going to do that. It's just not in their internal makeup and runs contrary to a lot of their internal principals.
Even if they did, it's probably far too late in the game now. Sony and MS are too entrenched, Nintendo playing "me too, come play our GTA knockoff" at this point would just look like a third wheel.
There isn't really a good option for them right now to be honest, other than to hope maybe one of their internal studios can hit gold with a new Pokemon and having a cheap/profitable line of hardware next cycle.
