Topic: So if Nintendo is letting developers use their IPs

Honestly all Nintendo fans seem to say this and that tells me they haven't played a Sonic game in awhile. Sonic Team was doing good with it. Unleashed was not great but it's Sonic levels were good, Sonic 4 was awesome, Colors was great and Generations was also great. I feel like while Lost World wasn't as good as Colors or Generations but it was still a fairly fun game.

Lost World shows that they've learned absolutely nothing from those last few games though. They spent the last few games laying down a decent if not good foundation for the series, and then what do they do with Lost World? Throw everything away, reinvent the wheel again, and fall back into the same problems like inconsistent gameplay and level design.

Those quotes threw me off for a second. But I'm pretty sure the listings were confirmed false or something. Or Sega denied them at the very least.

@Bolt_Strike It's a lose-lose situation. Either they didn't learn from what they had done or they will be just doing same stuff as the other games and milking it.

There's no making every part of audience happy here. I give them some credit for trying something new with the series. (Kinda new anyway. It resembled the unreleased Sonic Xtreme somewhat)

You seem confused. The example would obviously be for IPs from other companies that weren't being used. And then if someone else later wants to make another game in the series, it is far more likely Nintendo's platforms would very likely be considered for that game (more than usual at least).

For example if my Retro and Megaman idea happened, the (what I quite frankly believe would be) inevitable success of that game would mean Capcom would make more Megaman games and wouldn't ignore the Wii U.

Or if Bayonetta 3 comes out and is on multi-platform, it is almost certain Wii U wouldn't be ignored.

Doing the same thing over and over again would be a refreshing change of pace for SEGA actually, and the series would be best served at this point by taking the existing gameplay and polishing it. If they have to change things up, they should do so by complementing existing gameplay, not reinventing the wheel and coming up with an entirely new playstyle. Constantly coming up with new playstyles puts a lot of people off to the series, because then you can't trust the developers to retain the aspects of the gameplay that you enjoy.

Obviously not what was meant, if Nintendo is going to develop something or even have a large hand in it it'll be under the condition that it's an exclusive to their platform. Same would be true for Sony and Microsoft although they're, particularly Microsoft, are at least slightly more open to PC ports. There are some IPs that could work but unless something crazy happens Halo wouldn't be one of them. The industry can move really fast sometimes though so who knows.

With that said it's not that far from reality already. Some key talent, particularly artists and designers, moved from Retro to 343 just before development on Halo 4 started. So in a way we've already seen what a Retro developed Halo might look like and if it was crap in your mind then there's your answer. To be fair they didn't at all have Nintendo of Japan calling the shots.... which is ultimately what makes Nintendo's third party devs fantastic rather than just great (see: Rare). But still....

you seem more confused

Yeah KK meant the other way around...like Nintendo making a PAC-MAN game or whatever.
Can't help but think if they did do something like this already, though.

^Pacman Vs.