| Hiku said:
Well, it's certainly true that some of those games may have been born out of neccesity. But on the other hand, if Nintendo went third party (because their console business wasn't lucrative enough), they would have a lot more money to invest in games since they won't be spending billions on R&D for the next console. Spending that to improve the quality in games would result in diminishing returns at some point. And at that point they do have a lot of other interesting I.P.'s to invest in. So even if #FE was created in order to bring more rpg's to WiiU, crossover rpgs like that have happened on other systems for different reasons. Same can be said for Hyrule Warriors. The reason it was made for WiiU may have been different than the reason Square let Koei make Dragon Quest Heroes. But that doesn't change the fact that it was successful enough to get a sequel announced for it. Same for Project X Zone, if we're talking about crossover rpgs. Nintendo's I.P's are for the most part popular enough to at leasy give a shot on another console. Especially since the climate for some of those genres (action, rpgs, fighting games, hack & slash) may be better on some other consoles. |
There would still be some projects like that but the majority of 2nd party games and series would go away because they dont need to exist. Theres no way a 3rd party nintendo would pour money into something like bayonetta 3 after sold the way it did same goes for the last story, #fe, wonderful 101 ect, and thats not bringing up the fact that a it would be possible for a handfull of 1st party ips to simply not gain traction as 3rd party titles so that would be the end of those series as well. If nintendo could go 3rd party without it negatively impacting the games they publish in any way then i really wouldn't care but theres simply no way their line up would go through unscathed
