HoloDust said:
Soundwave said:
It isn't really a risk. First of all I think you're also confusing "3rd party" for what is actually "2nd party". When a publisher pays a studio to develop something for them, that's a 2nd party game.
Instead of pumping money into Bayonetta 2, Wonderful 101 (which was NOT a cheap game to make per Platinum), and Devil's Third they could've instead financed a FPS shooter or Western adventure RPG, they just choose to continually greenlight a lot of very niche Japanese titles that don't even sell in Japan.
Their software output in the 90s was a lot more varied and mainstream (1080, Wave Race, Kobe Bryant NBA, GoldenEye, Star Wars ... these are games with mass appeal).
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No, I'm not confusing it, I'm mostly reserving 2nd party for studios that are, if independant, in long term exlusive relationship with some platfrom holder - if Nintendo, say, pays Obisidian to make a game for them, I see that as 3rd party exclusive, since Obsidian remains 3rd party. If Nintendo starts ordering games from them, and Obsidian starts making them just for Nintendo I would see them as 2nd party.
And comapring funds needed to make Bayonetta, Wonderful 101 and Devi'ls Third to games like Skyrim and Witcher is..well, bit silly. Cause that's the level of funding we're talking here about.
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Wonderful 101 for example wasn't a cheap game to make. Platinum has confirmed this, it cost as much as MGS Rising or any of their other games apparently. Go figure.
And realistically Nintendo doesn't need to feature match in every way. Splatoon doesn't have every feature every shooter on the market does. But it uses the same basic forumla in a unique way and it works. Splatoon likely doesn't have anywhere near the budget of something like Destiny, but because the genre/play type is popular it's at least finding some success on the market.
