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Is this possible and will this fill the void of third parties?

Yes 12 42.86%
 
No 15 53.57%
 
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episteme on 27 May 2014

Nintendo rarely releases new own IPs in well-established genres.

They usually make games in genres they once invented or revolutionized.
It's highly unlikely that they will ever do realistic sports games or military shooters.



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awesomeabe1998 on 27 May 2014
st0pnsw0p said:
awesomeabe1998 said:
st0pnsw0p said:
You're forgetting that Nintendo has 2 systems to support, so even if all 15 studios made 1 game a year, those 15 games would need to be divided between 3DS and Wii U.

I agree but let me ask you this. When is the last time you saw people buy Fifa or Nba or Madden on the 3ds? Not as much people as the people who play these games on home consoles. Even if the Wii U only has 8 dedicated studios. They can probably make at least 4 sports games a year and maybe a FPS and action game every now and then.

8 games a year is stil a pitifully small number, dude, and having half of those be sports games is overkill. Football and soccer are the only two sports games they need, all the other sports are waaay less popular.


I only said that they can but not should. They should make a soccer football and basketball game. 8 studios is like the least they should let work on Wii U games and as I mentioned above some studios can make multiple games. What if there were 10 studios and made 15 games, 3 of which were sports in 1 year and the rest were action, adventure, rpgs, and platformers along with a FPS. That sounds pretty good to me. We all know that Nintendo can bring in partners to help like Namco Bandai Sega or even Capcom. This is like the minimum. There should be around 15 to 20 exclusives a year for the Wii U plus decent third party support. I am talking about AAA games here.



awesomeabe1998 on 27 May 2014
episteme said:
Nintendo rarely releases new own IPs in well-established genres.

They usually make games in genres they once invented or revolutionized.
It's highly unlikely that they will ever do realistic sports games or military shooters.


It is not a whether or not but it is a should they or not.



cheshirescat on 27 May 2014

Nintendo simply doesn't have the resources to completely make up for the lack of third party support, particularly in sports simulation which is a tricky avenue. They can make cartoony arcade sports games like mario strikers or golf, but to sell a sport simulation game then they are going to have to drop money for licenses from the respective leagues to use their symbols and player likenesses (nintendo won't even pay peanuts for a dvd license for that functionality though the hardware is obviously there) or they make a generic simulator with made up teams and players and those just don't sell because the appeal of sports simulation games is controlling your favorite team/players.



episteme on 27 May 2014
awesomeabe1998 said:
episteme said:
Nintendo rarely releases new own IPs in well-established genres.

They usually make games in genres they once invented or revolutionized.
It's highly unlikely that they will ever do realistic sports games or military shooters.


It is not a whether or not but it is a should they or not.

They shouldn't.

The EA and 2K sports games have established fan bases and licensing the original rosters is expensive.

Their development teams aren't big enough to release so many games and they don't have enough experience with the genres.

Games like Fifa, Madden or NBA never had good attach rates on Nintendo consoles. The situation wouldn't change much if they had all those games. MAking them themselves would probably be a huge waste of money.

And annual sports games don't fit to their philosophy, they want to create timeless games.



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mr1984 on 27 May 2014

I GUESS THEY BUILT THAT NEW R AND D BUILDING FOR NOTHING