Would you rather have Nintendo buy Capcom or ATLUS?

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noname2200 said:

StarOcean said:
Oh god no. Neither. They're in no position to aquire any big dev right now. People are begging for Metroid and Animal Crossing on top of F-Zero and a billion other IPs Nintendo hides in the closet that isn't Mario, Pokemon, or Zelda and are getting nothing. Perhaps if Nintendo changes next gen my opinion will change, but as it stands they don't need any more IPs that they'll just sit on

1) They sit on those properties because they generally lack the resources to make the more niche stuff, especially in the HD age. Not that anyone could have seen that coming from a mile away, of course.

2) I'd hardly say Animal Crossing is hidden in the closet. Nor Metroid for that matter, but I know this site in particular has some obnoxious and oblivious folks who will argue otherwise, so I'll avoid that one for the moment.

they also primarily 'sit' on stuff because Nintendo traditionally has a very small employee base with small teams working on games. they have like a few thousand employees. this worked maybe a generation or 2 ago, but unfortuntately with so few in house developers its becoming harder for them to successfully outsource the work

all Nintendo needs to do is accept that they need to change their structure and pull in more programmers and team members. that's what's holding back the game development