Retro Studios should be Nintendo's Naughty Dog: Journey to the West

[HoloDust]

RolStoppable said:

HoloDust said:

Sorry for jumping in, but I don't think the point is attracting so much 3rd party support per se, as much as people who like to play current mainstream games...though it's true that most of those big hitters are 3rd party games.

Making few new western oriented IPs that catter to that audience would be pretty good starting point...not unlike what MS did with Halo, Gears and Fable when they decided to compete in that market.

Of course, this is all if Nintendo wants them on their home consoles in the first place...

The point of the OP is to attract the audience that plays those current mainstream games, so that third party multiplatform games sell and in turn make third parties stick around throughout the entire lifecycle of the system.

Yeah, I was reffering mostly to your "Nintendo sucking up to 3rd parties" part, cause I see the problem as one of attracting the current mainstream audience, not 3rd parties, which would in turn make their platform viable choice for 3rd parties, thus making their home console competitive in mainstream market.

But, as I said, that all makes sense if Nintendo wants to compete in that market at all.