Tantalus and Nintendo's relationship moving forwards

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hentai_11 said:

bunchanumbers said:
Nintendo needs a porting studio. Maybe even 2 studios. Not just for Nintendo stuff, but they could have been in charge of multiple 3rd party games. They should have been doing this for Wii U from the get go. Nintendo should have used this company to get a port of Skyrim, GTA5, and Street Fighter 4. Nintendo should have been actively porting as many 3rd party games as possible once it was known that the 3rd party devs wouldn't do it themselves.

I thought the Wii U already proved that 3rd party ports don't sell on it. Why should Nintendo buy a studio to get more 3rd party ports? Personally I liked the 3rd party games (ports & exclusive) from Ubisoft in the early days of the Wii U. But I totally understand that they didn't ported anymore games, because obviously I was the only person, who bought them.

There are several reasons why this could work. First, 3rd parties usually sell less on Nintendo systems, but if the job of porting the game is done by other, maybe the smallers sales aren't that big of an issue anymore. Second, that could help to reinforce the ties between them and some other companies. Third, Nintendo could convince some studios that aren't usually working on Nintendo systems (Bethesda, T2, CD Red...) and finally bring some of their games to Nintendo consoles. Fourth, Nintendo could talk to some companies to bring games that are requested on Nintendo systems.

Nintendo needs to make their product look as valuable as possible, and if they have to dedicate an efford to bring some of the big titles that other systems get, so be it. WIth that said, Nintendo should pick which games they will help with a lot of care, because not all of them will be succesful, and their porting studios could rather make remasters of old Nintendo games.