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wombat123 on 04 February 2020
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Leynos said:
GoOnKid said:

I like this part of the interview in particular:

It seems surprising that Nintendo has allowed the game to appear on other platforms. Why is that?

Kamiya: We don’t really know! (Laughs) They were really nice about it.

Inaba: Platinum has a really good relationship with Nintendo. We’ve been with Nintendo from the very beginning and we’ve released a lot of games with them, including Astral Chain which recently released and was a big success. So I think it’s largely thanks to our relationship with Nintendo that they kind of decided to give us a break. I think it’s our history that it’s largely attributed to. We were quite surprised ourselves. This is usually not something that is allowed in the games industry. We see it as a very unique opportunity that Nintendo has given us and we’re pleased to have it.

Been said before but this seems to confirm. Nintendo values PG a lot and will do anything to keep good relations with them, even if it means doing this one odd off-kilter thing.

I agree.  It's a win-win situation for Nintendo since they already had little faith in the IP: if it fails, they still gain a lot of goodwill with Platinum for no effort or cost and if it succeeds, they can still finance an exclusive sequel.

Last edited by wombat123 - on 04 February 2020