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Sogreblute on 07 November 2021
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PAOerfulone said:
Dulfite said:

Really curious what that $900 mil is mainly going to be used for. I know it's highly unlikely they will buy current studios. A little more likely, but still very unlikely, is they create brand new studios. I think they will most likely just expand the size of their more successful teams so they can make more games and faster.

What I personally wish is they would go full war-paint mode and create three brand new studios all based in USA for the sole purpose of making games that appeal towards the hardcore. New ips for the three. Pumping out western RPGs, Action Adventure games, etc.

Put them and Retro under Doug Bowser, and give the man direct control over what those four studios do with autonomy as long as they are successful in the next 10 years. Retro is already in Texas, put one in Seattle, one in Florida, and one in New York, the four most populous states. If they are successful, then maybe they add a 5th sometime down the road in the midwest, somewhere central like Kansas City or St. Louis.

That's what they've been doing already for the most part.

Monolith Soft. has more than triple the amount of employees they had 10 years ago, and I'd consider them the MVPs of Nintendo during that timeframe. I'd love to see them grow to the point where they can develop their own 2 franchises (Xenoblade + new IP) plus 1 of Nintendo's IPs that have long since been dormant (Kid Icarus, anyone?)

Intelligent Systems has been a little slower with their growth, but they have been growing. They've got 1 of their own (Fire Emblem) and 1 of Nintendo's (Paper Mario). And with Advance Wars getting a remake, if that does well, perhaps they'll get a little more manpower to bring that franchise back so that it's 2 & 1 for them. 

I'd love to see what Next Level Games has to offer themselves on top of Luigi's Mansion. 

And while it may be unlikely, I'd like to see Nintendo officially purchase MercurySteam, make them their in-house 2D Metroid team and also give them the green-light to come up with their own franchise as well.

As interesting as that Western IP strategy would be to see, the chances of that happening are very slim.

They might use some of that money for Intelligent Systems, but keep in mind they do not own them.