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dartmonkey

After reading Reggie's 'revelation' that petitions don't do jack and that companies exist to make money, I ruminated and have come up with a scheme to please all parties (apart from idiots - there's no pleasing them). It has probably been suggested a thousand times before, but I haven't heard it and it specifically deals with remakes and translations of JP-only releases.

Essentially, Nintendo should 'Kickstart' these projects. If 100,000 signatures don't equal 100,000 sales, why not bag the sales upfront? They would present the case for a specific remake, let's say Majora's Mask on 3DS. As it's a remake, it is much easier to define the parameters of the game and give a very accurate idea of the final product. Budgeting and scheduling for development is also much more accurate. Nintendo calculate the costs, plus a small but acceptable profit and make that the goal. There's a fixed price (say, £40). If you want to contribute more, simply buy two or more copies. If it's funded, it's made. Backers would get something unique, whether it be a figurine, different boxart, a bunch of stars or even a small cosmetic addition in the game (a new mask or something). Then the retail version would go on sale as normal. Everyone's a winner.

I can imagine the funding goal would be necessarily huge, but this would show that fans are serious in a way a financial entity can understand. An online signature doesn't mean Jack - only hard cash will do. Branding it as a Club Nintendo initiative could work well.

Thoughts? Would you contribute to a scheme like this?

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GuSolarFlare

that's a great idea! if random emails(of which many shouldn't even count, there are too many people with 2 or more emails) won't work, money could change the industry, if a company sees a lot of money coming even BEFORE a project starts they won't say no to it!

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GuSolarFlare

yeah but petitions don't work because most people who sign end not buying(or rather more than half the petitions are just people with 2 or more emails trying to make the project look bigger)

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NinChocolate

Nintendo, a multi-national company and Kickstarter is not a combination we will ever see. Kickstarter is there to find funding for projects, as we all understand. Once Nintendo decide on creating software they don't require money from external sources like kickstarter, their own business provides them with those budgets. And in Nintendo's case, is more than equipped to do so. So the issue isn't funding, it's the sales of a product that will in the end contribute to keeping a business as big as Nintendo's, operating and profitable.

We just get lucky when a request by fans intersects with the products that Nintendo alone can determine if they will substantively contribute their profit goals.

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dartmonkey

Perhaps I should have been clear with my meaning - I'm not suggesting Nintendo use Kickstarter themselves, rather that they secure sales before development. I guess it's not strictly crowdfunding because they have the resources to make the game, but it would work in a similar way. The branding could be anything - 'sponsors', 'advance purchasing', whatever. But the principle would be to secure sales and eliminate risk. Everyone wins. The fans get their game, the company makes money. It wouldn't be done through Kickstarter, it would be a bespoke Nintendo scheme, possibly with Club Nintendo branding, but the crowdfunding principle would carry over. However, because it would be used for remakes and translations, the parameters for the finished product would be much easier to define and communicate than an original title.

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@Dartmonkey I had the exact same idea, even posted it in the article comments you referenced

"Provide a way for us to put our money where our mouth is i would say. Give me something like kickstarter for Bayonetta 1 or Monster Hunter 4, il put the money down this second as a show I intend to purchase it. If enough is not generated then it simply doesnt happen and we get our money back, if it does then the mulah becomes non refundable pre orders and you simply get the game when it is ready."

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GuSolarFlare

that still seems like the best way. but I'd also like to see what the developers WANT to do. maybe they want to make something better than what the fans want.

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SomeBitTripFan

The only problem I could see is how Nintendo would have he workforce to work on all the remakes, games, and whatnot from all the funded titles, but overall, it's a good step forward.

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MikeLove

I've had a similar thought, but I think it would look bad/desperate on Nintendo's part.

It would just look like Nintendo had no confidence in their ability to make games that sell.

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GuSolarFlare

they could make something like every year making a poll to see which game the fans want the most and doing this "kinda a kickstarter but not exactly it" for the game that won the poll. it'd be democratic and please the fans a lot as a safety measure they could limit the poll only to people that reviewed over 10 games on the Eshop(you have to have the game and play it for a minimum time before reviewing so it'd work fine to filter at least 30% of the fakes that vote for no reason)

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