ArcaneFreeze
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So help me understand, will they shut down all their 3rd party publishing deals, other dev studios, 2nd parties, etc. or will they all work on Mario, Zelda and Pokemon? Because I am really interested to see what you think here, why you think this company will either saturate the market with dozens of games from the same franchises, kill off entire dev teams (just 'cos we're 3rd party now can't have those!) or just have hundreds if not thousands of people from multiple dev morph into 3 super dev teams just for those franchises?
To expand on this, Retro studios, what are they doing now? Monolith? Intelligent Systems? Why can't Nintendo publish for other devs anymore? Is there some secret pact that stops a smaller dev like Platinum from dealing with publishers that don't own the platform? Isn't that exactly what a publisher is supposed to do?
Why would going 3rd party suddenly render them impotent?
All those games I listed were made with the WiiU hardware in mind. Nintendo went after Bayonetta 2 and Wonderful 101 because they needed games for their platform. Do you think they would go and fund those games if they didnt? Would they go after partnership deals with Atlust for SMT x FE? Pikmin 3 was built with Pointer Controls in mind that would limit it to the PSMove and we all know how that sold. Game & Wario was built for the gamepad, no gamepad no game. Ntm these games sell on Nintendo's platforms because there aren't similar titles to it on the platform. Would people really buy a Metroid game if it was on Xbox against Halo? Would people buy FZero on Playstation with Wipeout on it? Who would need Animal Crossing with the big Sim City games competing against it? Nintendo's been bashed for the lack of third party support but its that lack of support that gives their first party titles dominance because there aren't similar titles for the system.