Pemalite said:
potato_hamster said:
There is absolutely no way Nintendo could ever release any of these games officially. Ever.
It simply doesn't work like that. Fan projects are never made to the same checks and balances as actual legitmate video games are. That's fine and dandy on PC, but consoles are different. You're talking a huge undertaking just to QA and certify the game, and if any bugs are found, the only people that can realistically fix it are the people that made the games originally, which means they have Nintendo over a barrel. Aside from that, the code base could be a complete mess, and the game could just barely be functioning. What do you do with a game that appears to be far more stable than it actually is? Remember, if Nintendo releases it, Nintendo has to support it.
It's a gigantic mess. You will never ever see it happen. The best you might see is some of the developers being hired by Nintendo to work on Nintendo's own projects, but that's it.
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Of course Nintendo could.
Those fan games are better than some of Nintendo's own recent (Or lack there-of) efforts.
Remember, Nintendo shut down those projects not when they first started... Or years after development... But after all the years of hardwork had been put in, bugs squashed, the games had a high degree of polish and were finally released. In otherwords... Nintendo was an ass.
Valve have historically taken modders who have made high quality mods and turned them into full AAA releases, some of which have even ended up on console, that's the right way to go about it, foster and support the community... Don't stifle and destroy it, you don't do anyone any favors.
Nintendo should rightfully be ridiculed on this, not defended.
Nintendo shut down 562 fan projects... Compound that with their war on Youtube content creators... And well, you get the idea. Nintendo aren't nice.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1273071
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By the way, majority of them were Pokemon and Mario, and no fan developers haven't been doing better job of making Pokemon or Mario (They literally made a Mario Maker tool) than Nintendo. Sorry but besides arguably two games, none of those games are the quality of what valve has authroized. These are not high quality mods, these are generally nes style or gba style games, that would not be mass marketed and will be seen as lame attempt if Nintendo sold them and most likely devalue the brand sales of things like Sun and Moon or Mario Maker, and besides maybe two (Mother 4, and Metroid Fan Game), would more likely lose money for the company for just releasing them.
Sorry but Nintendo War with Lets Players is not the same as Nintendo actually protecting Trademarks of its games asset, because if you do not protect that right, you can sadly lose it. You do know that the site specifically does get profit off people using that site right, and they have method of sharing revenue with the fan developers. So some are actually making money off Nintendo's asset and work.
Sorry but you thinking 562 games literally called Pokemon, Zelda, Metroid and Mario is not the same Black Mesa, is just huge leap to think otherwise.
Yes, I do agree that Nintendo should work with the Metroid guy (It is the only game I can agree with and the argument that Nintendo is not doing a good job with this IP is truthful), not the Pokemon person, sorry but GBA style Pokemon is nothing special in terms of raising the value of your brand now a days.
