| Soundwave said: Ugh, enough with the "buy Capcom", Nintendo is not buying a bloated, past its prime Japanese third party to make Japanese games that won't really help them in the West. Resident Evil simply just sells better on Sony platforms, Nintendo has had exclusive Resident Evil games before and it's never really helped their hardware sales, and quite frankly the franchise is dated and tired today, it's almost 20 years old. Like I like Capcom too, but Nintendo fans have been banging this drum for like 15 years. If Nintendo wants rights to Megaman games, I'm pretty sure Capcom would just give it to them for a small fee if Nintendo was willing to actually finance such a game (which they're probably not interested in). They made a pitch for BANDAI as a toy company like *13 years ago* when Bandai's stock was at rock bottom. The last major new external studio they invested in an ownership stake was like ... I can't even remember. Maybe Silicon Knights or Retro Studios in the late 1990s? Even despite swimming in cash during the Wii/DS era they basically did not invest anything meaningful into foreign development or developer buy-outs. Nintendo is fine with being a small company. I think you're confusing what you want with the actual reality here. Nintendo is just now barely coming out of their shell and doing things like amusement park rides and that's only because their traditional hardware business is in major decline. |
I'm not going to stop with the buy Capcom. They aren't past their Prime and their IP are still some of the most valuable in the industry. If Square can make Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and Hitman relevant again, Nintendo can make Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and others relevant again.
It doesn't matter how long ago it was and it's not like Capcom is a financial powerhouse at the moment, and like I said, they don't even have to buy them outright. They can purchase a controlling stake, or they could just workout a major exclusivity deal.
I'm not confusing anything. The brand expansion isn't merely an reaction to poor sales. It's a well thought out plan of expansion for the future as a multimedia titan like Disney is. I just don't think T.V. and movies are enough on that front. They need to do something big with their software output at home, and a partnership with Capcom would be a titanic start.
