| Soundwave said: 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. |
Why would that offend me? Neither was Marvel until is was. No one cared about Iron Man until the movie. No one cared about Thor until the movie. No one cared about Captain America until the movie. No one cared about the Avengers until the movie. No one cared about Gardians of the Galaxy until the movie.
The IP are valuable, whether the games are selling currently or not. If you don't have an eye for franchise potential, that's your failing. Fortunately, it isn't mine and hopefully it isn't Nintendo's either.
Nintendo vs. Capcom would be their Avengers and it would be an absolutely massive seller on brand alone. A AAA Tropical Freeze-tier Mega Man platformer with a big marketing push by Nintendo would be a huge seller and bring the franchise back to relevancy. It would take very little to make Monster Hunter big here. They can market it as their answer to Dark Souls (it isn't) and all it would need is a story that is actually enjoyable, voice acting, and a console version that doesn't look a generation behind. Resident Evil is definitely not old and tired. Street Fighter V was a bad product - this is all under the assumption that these games aren't.
So it isn't an outlier. The N64 wasn't a successful generation for them. Stop glorifying it.
