The one franchise Nintendo NEEDS

[thatguymarco]

Aielyn said:

... oh, I understand. You mean in the sense of advising a golfer to "be the ball". Nintendo needs to "be" 3rd party, so that they better understand the 3rd parties.

That's what you meant, right? I mean, you're clearly not stupid enough to suggest that Nintendo would be better served by diluting their brand and depending on other companies for hardware that would therefore not be particularly suited to the way that they make games.

 

Anyway, I came in here hoping that this would be about third party franchises Nintendo should acquire, since Nintendo has apparently, recently, practically acquired the "Momotaru Dentetsu" franchise from Konami/Hudson. And since that's what I wanted the thread to be about, that's what I'll answer with.

Nintendo needs to get hold of Sonic. Sega clearly doesn't truly understand what to do with Sonic now, and I believe Nintendo would be able to do the Blue Blur justice.

I'm not smart enough to come up with a clever and witty reply, so I'll just post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu1xhOC61_I (Sorry, I don't know how to post shit here.)

Anyway, I was just kidding, even if I love the idea of not needing to pay a $300 paywall just to play Nintendo games, some of which I'm usually not interested in, a little too much, doesn't mean it's the best thing they can do.

Now, in all seriousness, I think that acquiring IPs is a great idea, but Nintendo should also acquire/create dev. teams if they don't want to repeat the disaster that was the Wii U with its horrible droughts and wierd shit, and is not really necessary to try to understand and get 3rd parties back, since the damage that the Wii and Wii U did to Nintendo's image is pretty much unrepairable, people don't expect Nintendo to be important, and Nintendo seems to be confortable to be in the niche position they currently have, so why bother? The best thing they can do is just make their consoles as accesible as possible so that some non-hardcore Nintendo sheep/not-rich-people can also enjoy their games as well.