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think-man on 09 December 2012
KungKras said:
think-man said:
hmmmm are sega that profitable anymore?

They could be under Nintendo

Yeah they need to try something new.



 

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KungKras on 09 December 2012
Mr Khan said:
KungKras said:
Mr Khan said:
NightDragon83 said:
Have Nintendo buy SEGA and then have one of Ninty's in-house studios make New Sonic The Hedgehog.

Oh, and have Amusement Vision develop the next F-Zero.

Amusement Vision no longer exists, unfortunately.

Really, there's not much left of Sega worth taking, outside of the Yakuza team and Sonic Team.

You know it's bad when Sonic Team is mentioned as one of the studios worth taking...

Sonic Team's got plenty of talent in them, i maintain. After the disaster that was Sonic 2006, they really got their shit together.

Also the people who make Phantasy Star Online (i think that was moved away from Sonic Team?)

To me, it just looks like people praise their new games because after the really shitty ones, even mediocre ones will look good.



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chriscox1121 on 09 December 2012

Also, to add insult to injury, Nintendo taking away a PSO title (which Sony portables usually get and has a decent following in Japan) and adding it to the 3DS library would be a good strategic move imo. I know the game is not massive like MH, but it's still another blow to the Vita.




DanneSandin on 09 December 2012
archbrix said:
NightDragon83 said:
Have Nintendo buy SEGA and then have one of Ninty's in-house studios make New Sonic The Hedgehog.

Oh, and have Amusement Vision develop the next F-Zero.

I agree, those things would be a dream come true for me.

The problem is that I don't expect to see a Genesis-style Sonic game on WiiU. The CPU is too slow to have Blast Processing...

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S.Peelman on 09 December 2012

Mmmm, I'd like Total War to be on the WiiU.

Realistically, I don't see SEGA's portfolio at the moment adding anything to Nintendo's. Best for Nintendo to shop somewhere else, unless they plan to revive/reboot a lot of old franchises.



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DanneSandin on 09 December 2012

I'd love to see SEGA under Nintendo, but don't think that'll happen. There's a much bigger chance of Nintendo buying a SEGA IP. Remember that we heard a rumor that Nintendo would reveal some kind of partnership or game that would send even bigger shock/rage waves through the business than Bayo2? http://dualpixels.com/2012/11/29/rumor-behind-the-scenes-with-first-party-hardware-and-third-party-softwear-next-gen/

Could it be that Nintendo has worked out some kind of deal with SEGA??

And I don't really understand why everyone here thinks it's better for Nintendo to acquire Platinum Games. Why??

And like S.Peelman said in the post above; I'd also love to see Total War on Wii U :D



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Player2 on 09 December 2012
DanneSandin said:
I'd love to see SEGA under Nintendo, but don't think that'll happen. There's a much bigger chance of Nintendo buying a SEGA IP. Remember that we heard a rumor that Nintendo would reveal some kind of partnership or game that would send even bigger shock/rage waves through the business than Bayo2? http://dualpixels.com/2012/11/29/rumor-behind-the-scenes-with-first-party-hardware-and-third-party-softwear-next-gen/

Could it be that Nintendo has worked out some kind of deal with SEGA??

And I don't really understand why everyone here thinks it's better for Nintendo to acquire Platinum Games. Why??

And like S.Peelman said in the post above; I'd also love to see Total War on Wii U :D

Nintendo does have more franchises than they can handle and Platinum Games does have talented people that could make new games for those franchises.



DanneSandin on 09 December 2012
Player2 said:
DanneSandin said:
I'd love to see SEGA under Nintendo, but don't think that'll happen. There's a much bigger chance of Nintendo buying a SEGA IP. Remember that we heard a rumor that Nintendo would reveal some kind of partnership or game that would send even bigger shock/rage waves through the business than Bayo2? http://dualpixels.com/2012/11/29/rumor-behind-the-scenes-with-first-party-hardware-and-third-party-softwear-next-gen/

Could it be that Nintendo has worked out some kind of deal with SEGA??

And I don't really understand why everyone here thinks it's better for Nintendo to acquire Platinum Games. Why??

And like S.Peelman said in the post above; I'd also love to see Total War on Wii U :D

Nintendo does have more franchises than they can handle and Platinum Games does have talented people that could make new games for those franchises.

I get that Nintendo has more IP's than they can handle, but why do everyone think that Platinum is so great?! They've done, what, bayonetta? What else?



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S.T.A.G.E. on 09 December 2012
HappySqurriel said:
Soundwave said:
I hate to say it, but the only third party dev worth owning for Nintendo would be Square-Enix. Japanese devs have really fallen off a cliff.

Even Capcom is somewhat moot as Nintendo has Monster Hunter under their wing now (and given the Vita's performance, that's not unlikely to be going anywhere) and had Resident Evil exclusivity before and it didn't do much.

For Nintendo to buy Sega it would have to be a "Sammy wants to dump Sega and is willing to basically gift them to Nintendo at a bargain price" type thing.

If this were to happen, I'd basically make Toshihiro Nagoshi the lead of the Sega-Nintendo division and bring back Yuji Naka to the company (the other Sonic creator already works at NST for Nintendo).


I would argue that there is more value in Sega's IPs than Square Enix at the moment ...

To put numbers on it, there are probably 12 to 18 franchises that Sega owns that could reliably produce a 1+ million selling game (and a couple that could produce a 5+ million selling game) if they were produced at the same kind of quality level as most Nintendo games; and most of these games would be relatively inexpensive to produce because they would (ideally) be 2.5D games where realistic graphics are less important than style.

In contrast, the value in Square Enix is franchises that are gigantic blockbusters that require massive teams and a gigantic cost to produce.


Thats bull, with Deus Ex, Final Fantasy, and Tomb Raider under Square Enixes thumb, this looks like a new start for them. Sega has no games, nor the budgets behind their titles to have mass appeal.



Player2 on 09 December 2012
DanneSandin said:
Player2 said:
DanneSandin said:
I'd love to see SEGA under Nintendo, but don't think that'll happen. There's a much bigger chance of Nintendo buying a SEGA IP. Remember that we heard a rumor that Nintendo would reveal some kind of partnership or game that would send even bigger shock/rage waves through the business than Bayo2? http://dualpixels.com/2012/11/29/rumor-behind-the-scenes-with-first-party-hardware-and-third-party-softwear-next-gen/

Could it be that Nintendo has worked out some kind of deal with SEGA??

And I don't really understand why everyone here thinks it's better for Nintendo to acquire Platinum Games. Why??

And like S.Peelman said in the post above; I'd also love to see Total War on Wii U :D

Nintendo does have more franchises than they can handle and Platinum Games does have talented people that could make new games for those franchises.

I get that Nintendo has more IP's than they can handle, but why do everyone think that Platinum is so great?! They've done, what, bayonetta? What else?

This is going to be a long post >_<

These three guys work in PlatinumGames:

Shiji Mikami:

Game Year of release Role
Project Zwei TBA 2013 Director
Shadows of the Damned 2011 Creative producer
Vanquish 2010 Director
God Hand 2006 Director
Killer7 2005 Executive producer/Writer
Resident Evil 4 2005 Director
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations 2004 Executive producer
Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 2004 Background modeler
Resident Evil Outbreak 2003 Designer
Dino Crisis 3 2003 Executive producer
Viewtiful Joe 2003 Executive producer
P.N.03 2003 Director
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All 2003 Executive producer
Resident Evil Zero 2002 Executive advisor
Resident Evil 2002 Director
Resident Evil Survivor 2 Code: Veronica 2001 Supervisor
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 2001 Executive producer
Devil May Cry 2001 Executive producer
Resident Evil Gaiden[25] 2001 Advisor
Onimusha: Warlords 2001 Advisor
Dino Crisis 2 2000 Executive producer
Resident Evil Code: Veronica 2000 Producer
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis 1999 Producer
Dino Crisis 1999 Director/Producer
Resident Evil 2 1998 Producer
Resident Evil 1996 Director/Producer[26]
Goof Troop 1994 Game designer[27]
Aladdin (SNES) 1993 Planner
Super Lap (unreleased) 1992 Planner
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Game Boy) 1991 Planner
Capcom Quiz: Hatena? no Daibōken (Game Boy) 1990 Planner

Hideki Kamiya:

Game Year Publisher Role
Bayonetta 2[6] TBA Nintendo supervisor
The Wonderful 101[7] 2012 Nintendo director
Bayonetta 2009 SEGA story, director
Ōkami 2006 Capcom story, director
Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! 2005 Capcom story
Viewtiful Joe 2 2004 Capcom story
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations 2004 Capcom voice actor for Godot in the Japanese version
Viewtiful Joe 2003 Capcom director
Resident Evil Zero 2002 Capcom original game design
Devil May Cry 2001 Capcom director
Resident Evil 2 1998 Capcom director
Resident Evil 1996 Capcom system planner
Arthur to Astaroth no Nazo Makaimura 1996 Capcom planner

Atsushi Inaba:

Lots of people that worked with them in Capcom are now in Platinum as well.