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Soundwave on 16 April 2016
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spemanig said:
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.

In the US, the N64 was relatively successful ... it sold the same as the Super NES despite having basically 10% of the developer support. 

In Japan they foolishly gave away all their JRPGs to Sony so the resulting rout there was predictable. 

Nintendo Vs. Capcom can happen right now today if Nintendo wanted it to. All they have to do is call Capcom and Capcom would say yes before they could even pitch the idea. 

Things like Iron Man, Captain America, etc. were never done correctly in movie form, I know this fairly well because I remember growing up in the 80s and we had that incredibly shitty Captain America movie that was made on a budget of like $10. 

Bottom line though is I think Nintendo pivoting away from Western collaboration and Western partners was a big mistake. Things like James Bond, Kobe Bryant, Ken Griffey Jr., Star Wars helped Nintendo in the 90s and they are still relevant today (well the NBA/MLB). Things like Resident Evil had their chance, and quite frankly RE couldn't sell GameCubes either.