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CaptainExplosion on 23 July 2019
Dulfite said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

God, please, no!

You could have named so many good studios, and you managed to name the worst one you could.

You could have said Obsidian, inXile, Beamdog... so many great RPG studios...

How about buying Shin'en Multimedia? They are very good programmers, imagine what they could do with an actual budget...

Calm down lol. I clarified later I'd rather it be something like Bioware from the old days rather than modern Bethesda. I've only beaten like one Bethesda game and I was very unimpressed (Skyrim) so it's not like I'm obsessed with them. Just the one my fingers decided to type. If Nintendo had a team that could pump out Kotor/ME1/Third Age kind of RPGs I would be delighted.

I rather Bofferbrauer's idea with buying Shin'en Multimedia, and finally putting them to work with the F-Zero license!!



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Bofferbrauer2 on 24 July 2019
CaptainExplosion said:
Dulfite said:

Calm down lol. I clarified later I'd rather it be something like Bioware from the old days rather than modern Bethesda. I've only beaten like one Bethesda game and I was very unimpressed (Skyrim) so it's not like I'm obsessed with them. Just the one my fingers decided to type. If Nintendo had a team that could pump out Kotor/ME1/Third Age kind of RPGs I would be delighted.

I rather Bofferbrauer's idea with buying Shin'en Multimedia, and finally putting them to work with the F-Zero license!!

And a new Excite Trucks while we're at it! And of course, with Fast Racing becoming a Nintendo IP, that would give them at least 3 IP to work on



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CaptainExplosion on 24 July 2019
Bofferbrauer2 said:
CaptainExplosion said:

I rather Bofferbrauer's idea with buying Shin'en Multimedia, and finally putting them to work with the F-Zero license!!

And a new Excite Trucks while we're at it! And of course, with Fast Racing becoming a Nintendo IP, that would give them at least 3 IP to work on

Hopefully that doesn't stretch them too thin.



Bofferbrauer2 on 24 July 2019
CaptainExplosion said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

And a new Excite Trucks while we're at it! And of course, with Fast Racing becoming a Nintendo IP, that would give them at least 3 IP to work on

Hopefully that doesn't stretch them too thin.

If they would make one each per Gen, that shouldn't be much of a problem.



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CaptainExplosion on 24 July 2019
Bofferbrauer2 said:
CaptainExplosion said:

Hopefully that doesn't stretch them too thin.

If they would make one each per Gen, that shouldn't be much of a problem.

They could still recruit new staff too, right?



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Wman1996 on 28 July 2019

Yes. It's served Sony super well. North America is the largest audience for video games, some more western-oriented games would hardly be a bad thing. They should probably just buy Next Level Games at this point, considering they developed Punch-Out!!, 2 Luigi's Mansion games, and the Mario Strikers games. And where is Mario Strikers 3 while we're at it?



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burninmylight on 28 July 2019
Wman1996 said:
Yes. It's served Sony super well. North America is the largest audience for video games, some more western-oriented games would hardly be a bad thing. They should probably just buy Next Level Games at this point, considering they developed Punch-Out!!, 2 Luigi's Mansion games, and the Mario Strikers games. And where is Mario Strikers 3 while we're at it?

So much this.

Don't hold any studio under Nintendo's watch to the same standards as any third party. Nintendo may put its name on a turd every once in a while, but it's not going to allow a collossal screw up on the level of ME Andromeda, Failout 76, or Anthem.

Look at all the western devs that were once second-party studios for Nintendo or that had some sort of close partnership, and do a before and after comparison on them (Rare, Silicon Knights, Factor 5 to get you started). You'll quickly find a trend that says, "These guys were awesome when they were on Nintendo's payroll, then went to hell once they weren't."



CaptainExplosion on 29 July 2019

Wish Nintendo found a talented Western developer to make a new Star Fox in the vein of Starlink.