spemanig said:
Again, it's no different than the Street Fighter V deal. Only way, way bigger. And with the insane amounts of money Nintendo would need to fork over to get such a deal, Capcom would walk away more than fine on the other side. Nintendo vs. Capcom would sell massively on brand power alone. Monster Hunter is already exclusive. Mega Man would be published by Nintendo and easily sell on the NX even before the crossover of audiences, especially if it was just a Tropical Freeze-tier 2D platformer using the Smash 4 artstyle to feel distinctly "Nintendo." That just leaves a Resident Evil game and a Devil May Cry game which would be the only two "significant" exclusives of the bunch. Devil May Cry and Resident Evil could either go the direct sequel way, being Devil May Cry 5 and Resident Evil 7, or they could go into a "spin off" direction by having Devil May Cry x Bayonetta as the DMC rep and another "Revelations"-like spin off be the Resident Evil Rep. With the latter, Capcom could still make Devil May Cry 5 and Resi7 multiplatform, effectively meaning that the exclusivity deal changes absolutely nothing about how they operate, aside from giving Nintendo a significant exclusive line up. Nintendo vs. Capcom - Exclusive thanks to the IP. Monster Hunter NX - Exclusive via status quo Mega Man - Exclusive via developement support. Possibly even have Retro make it. Devil May Cry x Bayonetta - Exclusivity via Platinum alliance Resident Evil Revelations-like spin off - Exclusivity via non commitment, just like what was the case with Revelations, since its not a numbered game like Resi4 was. And Ninyendo would be publishing/ financially influential in all of these. The first three are extremely low risk. All guaranteed to sell above a million, and frankly, the first two would sell above two million easily. The last two, in a desperate struggle, would at least have the potential to hit 1m based solely on the power of the IP and the installed base potential of a platform like the NX with a unified installed base between the handheld and console. But they would likely sell closer to 2m, as even Resi4 on the GCN managed to err towards 2m. The deal would be fantastic for both. Fantastic for Nintendo in the attempt to cultivate a hardcore audience, and fantastic for Capcom in that they'd make a shit ton of money. |
To be quite frank here, you have no idea what you're talking about.
You're likening the deal to Disney acquiring Marvel, which illustrates a real detachment from the reality of the sizes of all those companies. Disney has 140k employees, meanwhile Marvel has a meager 255, that is literally nothing to Disney. You know how the situation looks for Nintendo and Capcom? Nintendo has 5200 employees and Capcom has 2600, Capcom would be a massive acquisition for Nintendo, one that would to even begin to have a chance to work have to be accompanied by massive layoffs. Also the Marvel acquisition in no way limited its audience, a Capcom acquisition would suddenly bind their games to Nintendo hardware.
You also say that Capcoms audience would buy the NX, the problem with that is that aside from Resident Evil, Street Fighter and Monster Hunter non of their franchises have notable system selling power and even for those 3 (outside of MH) it seems a lot more likely that sales for them would noticably drop instead of helping console sales pick up dramatically.
Then you liken it to the Street Fighter V deal, which again is a whole different thing in terms of scale, it's one thing to fund one game entry in one (extremely successful) franchise, it's a whole nother thing to buy the complete company with all it's ailing assets.
The rest of the post is just some dream scenario of (which I assume) games you want to happen, so I don't really have anything to say to that.
Over 70% of mergers & acquisitions fail and this would be one that's destined to be added to that list.
