http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...-japanese-video-game-market-one-ip-at-a-time/
So Gaf, who agrees or disagrees with Forbes' assertion?
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Forbes: How Nintendo Is Taking Over The Japanese Video Game Market One IP At A Time
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RedAssedApe
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confused...isn't the image on the second page of Dragon Quest 8 on PS2?
arts&crafts
Member
Today is double thread day it seems. Not trying to be snide it is just funny seeing identical threads next to eachother.
It is 8 on PS2.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
The article gets kinda funny when it starts wondering if we should all be concerned about Nintendomination ruining competition. 
Quite a change in pace from the Nintendoomed press we've seen a lot of over the last year
Also seems like a bit of a fantasy angle here...
Quite a change in pace from the Nintendoomed press we've seen a lot of over the last year
Also seems like a bit of a fantasy angle here...
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
LOL--that will never happen.
The COD guys that were at the press event can't shut up about the game being FULL HD on Wii U.
Need to know if it's true, now.
arts&crafts
Member
Rare cannot be worth that much anymore can they? Unless kinect games sell well
Kinect Sports 4 to be Wii U exclusive
Kinect Sports is best selling Kinect franchise, six million units sold baby! Rare is back in the game!
Mini-game compilations that is.
OldJadedGamer
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The WiiU will totally and completely dominate Japan. No question. But Japan is the smallest market out of the three so what remains to be seen and I personally doubt is that they will take the rest of the world.
He's saying it's no surprise someone made the rumor. Not that it's real. Calm down.
But I won't lie that some of the facts he presents are dubious, which really hamper the discussion of a noteworthy possibility.
I dont see why they would even need Rare.. team is awful now anyways. Just buy the IP and have Retro do it.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
HD Banjo and Kazooie done by Retro? Where's that gif of the woman fainting?
It seems to me like they know exactly what they're doing, which is attempting to win over the big Japanese franchises and giving them a place where they don't have to compete in the same cutthroat "AAA" arena thats been causing so many problems this gen.
I've often entertained a potential scenario where they convince Japanese developers to not go ahead with 720/PS4 development, for their own sake, and the Wii U (and 3DS) become "the" Japanese console of next gen.
I have my doubts they'll ever have the Western mindshare that PC/720/PS4 will have, but I dont think they care so much. By picking out cornerstones of the market they secure their own long term health and survival, which is way more important (see the PS3).
I've often entertained a potential scenario where they convince Japanese developers to not go ahead with 720/PS4 development, for their own sake, and the Wii U (and 3DS) become "the" Japanese console of next gen.
I have my doubts they'll ever have the Western mindshare that PC/720/PS4 will have, but I dont think they care so much. By picking out cornerstones of the market they secure their own long term health and survival, which is way more important (see the PS3).
Superior developer IW couldn't get the games to 720p. You know the truth.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Honestly Rare and their IPs are worthless at this point. I'd just love to see Banjo-Kazooie in Smash and have their old titles on the VC. Microsoft can have their Kinect shovelware studio.
Hot Coldman
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Controlling Dragon Quest and Monster Hunter is pretty nuts. I'm not sure what would be the next step in "dominating" the JP games market. Final Fantasy exclusivity? Well that won't happen.
They've already got their claws in the one independent Japanese studio I give a fuck about.
Oh, and Banjo would be nice to see in Smash. Where he belongs.
They've already got their claws in the one independent Japanese studio I give a fuck about.
Oh, and Banjo would be nice to see in Smash. Where he belongs.
Supermanisdead
Member
Buy Rare, save Banjo. Shows up in Smash Bros so everyone remembers how awesome he was, then BAM, new Banjo game. Then world peace.
Smiles and Cries
Member
Banjo... I did not ask for this
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
It feels like Nintendo is figuring out what areas they should and shouldn't compete with the others on. I think they're going to take Japan easily and I'm currently betting that they come in second in the next generation depending on how effectively Microsoft continues their current push.
Jaded Alyx
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"WHY DO THEY HAVE TO STEAL OUR GAMES? THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO, TAKING A BELOVED 3RD PARTY FRANCHISE AND MAKING IT EXCLUSIVE SO OTHERS CAN'T PLAY IT IS STEALING."
That reminds me, I need to connect up my Dad's N64 and play that.
In the end, Nintendo would not buy Rare just for Banjo. Unless they could get it for $10, or have discovered a secret within that IP to sell 10 million units.
Please be true.
Knows it's not
There's going to be a 3DS application for the game.
Those were different consoles so can't really assume that its not 1080p. This is more of a wait and see thing.
They're not worth much.
Their IPs are.
Gonna put this out there:
Nintendo buys the Banjo-Kazooie IP and hands it over to Retro.
How does that sound?
Hot Coldman
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If I were Nintendo, I'd give it to Next Level.
Smiles and Cries
Member
Mr. Pants U
Diddy Kong
Banned
Beautiful. Musical notes everywhere.............!
Microsoft fanboys: Nintendo stole..Banjo Kawhoie?
Also, giving them Banjo (and any other Rare IP) will be giving them back a megaton franchise from the 90's on a system that people would actually buy the games in.
It makes no sense for MS to give Nintendo stuff that is beneficial to them, even if it's relatively harmless to MS.
Exterminieren
Banned
Banjo Ka-U-ie.
Smiles and Cries
Member
maybe this is why MS had to shout KILLER INSTINCT brand from the mountain tops they want good money for it
I'll agree with that, reads like utter fanwanking.
Er, posting entire articles on here has been frowned on for a long time.What have you done?....
If you're going drop an article like this, at least post it
Parse what he's writing; he's presenting it as something that is supposed to be semi-plausible.
Hobbestetrician
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Hmm, needs more doom.
Colonel Mustard
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Bleh, buy Conker. Give it to Headstrong!!
(They're still a company, right?)
(They're still a company, right?)
LiveFromKyoto
Member
That used to be what mattered most. Things won't be like they used to, but this could be an example of Nintendo "buying low" by reinvesting in Japanese gaming, which given the talent there has to be considered undervalued right now.
They're probably taking the absolute best route to revivify the Japanese games industry - keep things at a level that isn't super costly to develop for, but with enough of a critical mass of AAA franchises to build a huge audience there. Differentiate on the interface, which is cheaper to do than by trying to out horsepower the competition.
I kind of hated the N64 & Gamecube. I had a Wii for about a year then sold it. But I like where they're going with the U, the heady days of the SNES could be coming back again.