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Nuvendil on 09 August 2017
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mZuzek said:
Soundwave said:
To be honest Nintendo needs more multiplayer IP in general.

Splatoon, Mario Kart, and Smash Bros. have done so well, and this is not anything new, GoldenEye/Perfect Dark/Turok on the N64 ... Nintendo makes way too many single player centric franchises when their buyer base generally has a strong preference towards multiplayer fun.

They never should've stopped making FPS shooters even if Rare was sold. Something like Nintendo's take on Overwatch would've sold a lot more than ARMS I think.

...they do? I honestly can't even remember any Nintendo single-player focused game on the Wii U not named Zelda. I guess Xenoblade, but even that's not quite exactly first party. Meanwhile, in terms of multiplayer-focused games they had pretty much all of their biggest sellers, like Mario Kart, Smash, Splatoon, SM3DW, NSMBU, Nintendo Land and the likes. I think they're right to focus a little bit more on single player this time, because it's certainly a big reason a lot of people just thought Nintendo was for casuals - providing at least Mario with an expansive single player game helps change that, and Metroid does too. They still have more multiplayer centric games anyway.

That said, I don't want to see Metroid Prime diving into multiplayer. These games are meant to be single player experiences first and foremost, and if we get multiplayer on top of that it's most likely either going to be crap (like it was in Echoes), or detract from the potential of the campaign. Then again, having a crappy multiplayer mode no one cares about on a game that is otherwise amazing isn't going to bother anyone, but there's no point to it either. I think it would do Nintendo good to have a great couch multiplayer FPS, but Metroid Prime is not the right game for that.

Not touching on most of this but XENOBLADE. IS. FIRST. PARTY.  It's as first party as Mario.  Monolith was bought by Nintendo and began working on a new, Nintendo owned IP called Monado: the Beginning of the World.  The IP was then renamed to Xenoblade Chronicles.  It is a Nintendo first party IP.

But I will go ahead and agree that Nintendo already has a good number of multiplayer experiences.  A couple more would be fine, but singleplayer has immense market potential still. Not that I wouldn't mind seeing Nintendo try their hand at a shooter or realistic racer.