Should Nintendo buy rare or SEGA? - General Discussion Forum

misswliu81 · 2012-04-01T21:18:31+00:00

of not? rare hasn't been the same company since the stamper brothers sold some of the firm's shares to microsoft, and nintendo were forced to pay the remaining 49%. instead of making quality titles, they're resorted to making casual games such as kinnect sports. rare has had a strong affiliation with nintendo all the way back to the N.E.S days up to the gamecube. their line-up for nintendo consoles included goldeneye 007, the original donkey kong country, battletoads, killer instinct, banjo-kazooie, jet force gemini, perfect dark to name. given their history with nintendo, they would be ideal as a subsidiary to nintendo. it would be like reliving the good ol' times all over again. and who knows, they might eventually put out killer instinct on the wii U! SEGA, on the other hand are not the same force as they were during the 16 bit megadrive/genesis days. they are undergoing a restructuring phase at the moment, with staff being laid off and gaming projects cancelled in the wake of poor sales. because of this, SEGA have been losing a lot of money. some will say Nintendo buying SEGA wouldn't make much sense, but these 2 companies know each other all too well- they have been and are highly experienced in both the hardware and software developing side of things. they have been arch-rivals but they're also now buddies as SEGA makes games for nintendo systems. and who wouldn't love to see a mario & sonic platformer or sega/nintendo smash bros style game? SEGA does have one thing that rare doesn't have- plenty of good I.Ps and characters. sonic, bayonetta, shenmue, NiGHTS, space channel 5, virtua fighter to classics such as toe jam and earl, streets of rage, golden axe, space harrier, shinobi, alex kidd, kid chameleon, gunstar heroes, i can go on and on. another reason as to why it could be better for nintendo to buy SEGA instead of rare, is the fact that nintendo has retro studios, who many see as their own 'rare' . they make almost similar titles of games for nintendo systems, so there isn't a need to buy rare. either way, both rare and SEGA would benefit a great deal by working as a second-party and they would see their games flourish under nintendo, so by doing well under nintendo, they are in effect doing well for themselves too.

Topic: Should Nintendo buy rare or SEGA?

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shingi_70
Mon 2nd Apr 2012

sushifreAk wrote:

sykotek wrote:
@sushifreAk: Hasn't Dimps been working on Sonic games for awhile now...at least ones that people have claimed to be enjoyable? The answer, yes.
Yeah, but the only noteworthy stuff they've done is the Sonic Advance series, Sonic Unleashed (didn't they do the daytime stages only?) and if they didn't screw up the physics, Sonic 4. Sonic Team beat them with Generations.

They also did Sonic Colors DS, and sonic Rush and Rush adventure.

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FonistofCruxis
Mon 2nd Apr 2012

shingi_70 wrote:

Yo op r
what's excatly are casuel games. Technically speaking most of what nintendo makes is casuel right. An d not sure why people get it I. Their heads that buying rare will turn the. Back into the 90s team. While a lot of the old guard is still there a lot has left ss well.
A nintendo/Deva merger would be horrible a number of reasons. Despite their huge losses Deva has really been trying this generation too become a better publisher and they have released a ton of good games. If they leave all you have for big first parties in Japan would be capcpom and square-enix. 2 this could end il being horrible as Sevastopol teams have been with the expection of the sonic team aren't that used to working with the wii. Could end up as bad as the sprint/nextel merger that stannagted the company.
Now what nintendo should do is focusing on acquiring smaller studios that can work on games outside of their realms. Buy misywalker (them or Microsoft I don't care just get the guch off of ios),next level games,monster games, a dev like obsidian, and a few other smaller western studios.

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