Dulfite on 29 January 2021
I mean they already said years ago they were thinking to make this a trilogy. Why buy the IP fully?
It's not like Platinum would say "no" as co-owner of the IP to Nintendo making spinoff games, and I doubt Nintendo would want anyone other than Platinum to make Astral Chains 2 after how well the first game sold. So if they just want to add characters to Smash and make a spinoff(s) game(s) I don't get why they would spend the money to buy the IP. Unless they plan to use the IP so much, in so many ways, that they expect to recover the cost they spent on buying Platinum's stake in the IP in the future, but I kind of doubt Nintendo is going to make like 2-3 Astral Chain based spinoffs in the next 10 years.
