Could Nintendo realistically do this

[zorg1000]

KLXVER said:

zorg1000 said:

No, it makes no sense for anyone involved.

Nintendo-these retro games will not add enough value to justify the cost of paying for their exclusivity, people who aren’t currently Switch owners/NSO subscribers aren’t going to become so just for these games.

3rd parties-the amount Nintendo pays them would not only have to match but greatly exceed the amount these companies currently make from having them on PC, PS, XB, iOS, Android & Nintendo.

Gamers-this is a very anti-consumer idea and making 3rd party titles that are 20-40 years old exclusive to a single platform and subscription service is just going to make less people have access to these classics.

Well anti-consumer is MS buying up half the industry, but here we are. This is the time for action and thinking ahead. Nintendo could become THE place for retro games. I think Capcom, Konami, Sega and SE would make more money with this than on all other systems combined. They would all help each other out. 

There are SO many games that are just not available on modern systems from these companies.

Sure it would suck for PS and XB owners, but they could still get the bigger games like Mega Man, Castlevania, Final Fantasy and Sonic, but Nintendo would get their entire backlog. I think it would be huge for all 5 of them.

Well first of all, MS doing anti-consumer things does not mean we should advocate for the rest of the industry to follow suit.

Second of all, you think “thinking ahead” consists of paying for games from the 80s & 90s?

You think they would make more but why exactly? How much is Nintendo willing to spend on these games and how much do these companies currently make from these games? And how does Nintendo benefit from this? How many people who don’t already own a Switch and subscribe to NSO are going to do so for these games?

Bigger franchises like Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Castlevania & Mega Man can remain multiplatform? So you mean the retro games that people actually care about from these companies and the only exclusives are the niche games that nobody cares about anymore? That seems to completely destroy the entire premise and makes me think you didn’t put a whole lot of thought into this.