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Soundwave on 16 April 2016
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spemanig said:
Soundwave said:

Nintendo doesn't have anything like Star Wars or Pirates or Marvel though. That's kinda the issue. 

Even in the 90s, Nintendo had things like Killer Instinct, Star Wars, GoldenEye/Bond, Perfect Dark, Starcraft, NBA Courtside ft. Kobe Bryant, MLB ft. Ken Griffey Jr., 1080 Snowboarding, and various other sports games. 

Today these are pretty much non-existant, they've gone backwards in the last 10-15 years. 

A deal with Marvel/Disney for games based on those characters would be a smart deal to make, Spider-Man, Avengers, X-Men, etc. are examples of IP that appeal to kids, but appeal equally or even moreso to teenagers and even adults. Nintendo doesn't really have enough of that dynamic. Japanese developers have narrow appeal today, Nintendo needs to wake up and start to collaborate with Western licensees. The console market is 90% in the West now, whether Nintendo likes it or not. 

Or buy the Bond license (it's available and probably cheap). That wouldn't be bad either. 

Soundwave, it's like you pick one sentence out of my posts and react to it alone while ignoring the rest. The entire post was about addressing that.

No offence, but Capcom really is not that relevant especially in the West anymore. Resident Evil is an old and tired IP, Street Fighter just flopped on the Playstation, and Monster Hunter is primarily a Japanese thing it's never going to be a top 10 franchise in the US. 

So the idea that partnering with Capcom makes them akin to Disney is kind of an outlier. Disney has grown or brought brands like Star Wars, Pirates, Marvel, etc. which are red hot right now not 15 years past their prime. Nintendo needs to engage with Western publishers and devs they actually had it right in the mid-late 1990s, dismantling NOA (basically) as it was then and going away from Western 2nd party partners was a huge mistake.