F*ck Platinum. What about Remedy and Quantum Break?

i'm not sure that is relavant to my point.

what i'm trying to say is that if a first party wanted to rent a high value studio like bungie it would cost them like, i dunno, one billion dollars.

platinum on the other hand has been just on the happy side of bankruptcy for a while now because regardless of critical aclaim for things like vanquish it didnt' sell all that well.  if a first party came in and said we'll cover all your expensives and give you a plate of cookies during the holiday's i think platinum would jump at the opportunity to keep their doors open risk free for another couple years.

Sold all the rights to max payne, their one franchise in early 2000 to take-two. Didn't make a game from 2003 to 2010.

Made Alan Wake much later with support from MS. Made a few iOS games, and some more Alan Wake.

Next game is Quantum Break.

Still making iOS as well. Not a studio with a strong outlook.

Ive actually been thinking "are they going the way of WayForward (and many others)" since the Legend of Korra news. Platinum could start taking on lisenced games to pay for their bigger projects. I hope they have the money to devote all of their time to passion projects but who knows...

I did a poor job of explaining myself. I don't think most of the companies Nintendo contracts with are financially unstable, Valhalla and Platinum aside. Next-Level games was stable before becoming second-party, Namco remains stable, Tecmo is okay, Atlus itself was alright (its earlier parent company, not so much), Monster Games doesn't seem to be under financial strain, etc.

Prof's list may be excluding a lot of strong third-party Microsoft partners, and I may be forgetting Nintendo counterexamples, but I don't think they're operating on the same wavelength, Platinum and Valhalla aside.

If they did that wouldnt be so bad

Not relevent enough to me.......I also havent hear of Remedy LOL.

Also Platinum is one of my favourite 3rd party devs, along with Namco, Tecmo Koie and SEGA. (though....i think Platinum is going fast to the top. all thier games are awesome.)

Studios less financially secure or working in riskier projects are more willing to reach exclusive deals with MicroSony and Nintendo. Makes sense.

Pretty much every gaming company is in financial trouble (at least those who make console games) so that this isn't really surprising  

It should be also obvious that Microsoft invests money in studios who search for investments and not so much in those who don't ask for it.

Unlike Platinum? A studio with great games but without a single big financial success.