Soundwave said:
The downside to that is a lot of Nintendo IP would likely get shelved forever. Nintendo wouldn't bother to make a game like Punch-Out or Pilotwings or Kid Icarus ... they make these types of games now because they have to support an entire platform. Probably something like Splatoon likely wouldn't get made either. ...Look at how much more diverse and great Sega's software was when they had to support the Dreamcast... |
Except the potential sales base for those type of games would be multiple time larger than it is, e.g. for Wii U.
Everything they can currently justify making would become just that much more profitable.
Sega had financial problems... Instead of failing, if Nintendo just went from console success to 3rd party dev success,
they don't have Sega's problem, and the same type of development they might do anyways just instantly has a larger market.
Even if they aren't interested in developing every single IP they hold, it seems like they would be more open to licencing them.
