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Nuvendil on 01 March 2017
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Kai_Mao said:
Nuvendil said:

Yeah, it's curious this gets brought up about Nintendo specifically.

Sony has plenty of IPs they don't do much of anything with.  No one ever said, "hey, you should reach out to Playtonics to make a new Jak and Daxter game" or something similar.  Assuming Sony kept the ownership of their IP

 

It's because Sony continues making more new IPs like The Order, Bloodborne, and, recently, Horizon. Thus, fans of PlayStation don't seem too worried about reviving old franchises. I mean, they tend to even brag about these new IPs, which is fine. Though they're doing a little revival with Crash so that's something.

Nintendo has tons of dormant IPs and they've revived several in the past several years through new games and/or through content in Smash or something. But then fans and critics also want them to develop new IPs so there's Steel Diver, Nintendoland, Codename Steam, Splatoon, ARMS, 1-2 Switch, Snipperclips, etc.

But that doesn't answer my question because Nintendo, as you pointed out, does make a lot of new IPs either themselves or in partnerships.  Red Steel, the Wii games (Sports, Fit, etc), Xenoblade, Last Story, Splatoon, Wonderful 101, Steel Diver, ARMS, Codename Steam, etc etc.  Nintendo makes new IPs and shepherds a large percentage forward, every generation has resulted in at least one new IP becoming a running franchise.  You would think, logically, Sony and MS - companies that mainly let franchises die and make new ones to take their place - would be the ones you would have people asking to farm out said IPs to indies to revive them.