| Soundwave said: Nintendo should've just signed a life time contract with the James Bond production company (EON) after the huge success of GoldenEye. That character is perfect and he's always "fun" but still appeals in a huge way to teenagers/adults as he's the iconic alpha male. And parents will shrug aside any/all violence and sexual inneundos from Bond because they grew up with Bond too so it's not something alien to them. He was really the perfect fit for the Nintendo brand of being cool/bad ass but not so far that it was like going from Mario to hyper-violent M-rated stuff like Devil's Third that just doesn't work for Nintendo. |
I don't know think EON would have given them such an ultimate deal, but I do agree that it would have been beneficial for what I'm getting at for them to have attemted harder to keep that deal going.
I don't think Devil's Third doesn't work for Nintendo because it's violent. It doesn't work because it's a shit game, and that doesn't go with the high bar of technical quality Nintendo goes for. For example, if the next Ninja Gaiden was exclusive to Nintendo, it would work fine, as long as they kept the quality high.
