the_dengle said:
Nem said:
You care to elaborate? It would give common ground for 3rd parties to negotiate with Nintendo, it would allow easy acess for engine architectures popular in the west to be compatible with Nintendo platforms and it would tap into all the licenses sold for development on other platforms. They could actually lower the price on the engine licence when its used on Nintendo platforms.It seems very beneficial from Nintendo's point of view. From Epic's point of view would be beeing part a a grander group with better work stability. Epic's business by itself would not require any changes. It would just be addition to Nintendo's viability as a platform and hold some pressure over 3rd party publishers and its competitiors.
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Well it's a bit of a conflict of interests. Epic's main source of income is licensing their engines for use on mostly non-Nintendo platforms. So Nintendo would have to choose between providing software support to companies developing for competing platforms and severly crippling Epic's value by restricting Unreal Engine to Nintendo hardware.
Naturally, Unreal Engine would start to look less appealing if its license carried a stipulation that every game developed for it HAD to have a Wii U version. Nintendo could do it, but I don't see why they would.
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Thats not what i said at all. Epic would continue business as usual and would sell licences for its engine to be used on other consoles aswell. This way Nintendo profits from games on their platform and on other platforms (as epics revenue would end up as Nintendo's). Its a great way to play both fields.
At the same time obviously, as mentioned before would be a cheaper license when used for Nintendo consoles.
Again, Nintendo should not stop distribution of licenses to all other parties if this happened. Exactly because of the problem you mentioned and because it wouldnt make sense to reduce Epic's profits. Also because if they did that then it would make no common interest with 3rd parties and basically wouldnt make sense to exercise the aquisition. It would be a bridge to western 3rd parties, wouldnt make sense to break that bridge. The position of strength and the bridges with 3rd parties are the whole point of this sugestion.
