Capcom's on a collision course to irrelevance. The only thing Nintendo would be purchasing are memories and if things continue in this direction, they can cherry pick IP during auction in a few more years.
And Sega Sammy had revenue of nearly 4.5 billion USD in 2012. Nintendo would have to invest much of what they had in the bank and for what? To create the Penn Central of the console world? Plus, for what little Sega manages to accomplish these days, they're hardly overlooking Nintendo with their offerings.
You don't buy the cow when you're getting the milk for free.
I gotta agree with this.
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I feel like Nintendo, right now, will simply look into just pocketing more studios to work exclusively with them... not necessarily purchase entire companies and IPs. Nintendo has an entire backlog of IPs they haven't touched in years.
Though having Capcom living under Nintendo's roof would be a dream come true. If Capcom hits the rocks, Nintendo would probably snap up some of the IPs.
Maybe we should keep our hopes little down. I really wish they can buy Capcom or aleast Megaman, but those a lot of studios, if they buy all of this o even a small part they can get in a bad financial state.
I'm not sure about buying Capcom as a whole, at least not right now, but maybe snagging an IP or two from them would work just as well. Mega Man, if SSB4 is anything to go by, would fit right in.
Why does everyone think it would be great in Nintendo owned all those other IP's from Capcom and Sega? Nintendo already has a few dozen IPs from the 80's-90's that they don't touch, so why do people think it would be any different with those other ones?
If Nintendo isn't using Star Tropics, Star Fox, F Zero ect, they sure as hell won't revive Eternal Champions or Vectorman.
Those companies don't even use their own IP's either, so what would be the difference? Nintendo would have a better chance of funding more IP's and bringing them out to the fans. How do we know there isn't a Star Fox and F-Zero in the works? Odds are one of those is in early development, it wouldn't surprise me one bit. Star Tropics on the other hand.. honestly, I never even heard of that game until the last year. Now it's like it pops up in every thread. Never played it, but I'd definitely give it a chance if they released and new one and it looked good.. it's obviously not a high priority for Nintendo though since they never mention it.
People are just starving for any game they can get. If Nintendo owned Capcom or Sega, they could bring back some classic games that people have been clamoring for over the years. Mega Man, Ghosts n' Goblins, Shining Force etc. All classics and it would be dumb not to revive them, especially if they went out of their way to merge.
Capcom and Sega wouldn't be bad but there old. I think Nintendo should buy a new and upcoming company that's going to bring fresh ideas and new franchises.
Rare would be stupid at this point. Microsoft made it a pale shadow of it's former self, there's no talented people left there. What's the point in buying a name?
Rare comes with a lot of titles. If Nintendo owned Rare they could put talented people there and people like David Wise or maybe even people from Crytek UK could come back.
Rare would be stupid at this point. Microsoft made it a pale shadow of it's former self, there's no talented people left there. What's the point in buying a name?
Rare comes with a lot of titles. If Nintendo owned Rare they could put talented people there and people like David Wise or maybe even people from Crytek UK could come back.
Microsoft would never sell it to Nintendo, to begin with. If your direct competitor sees value in one of your assets to the point of making an offer, then most likely it is far more valuable to keep it in your possession. Not for all the money in the world. Remember, Microsoft only got inside Rare, because the Stamper brothers sold their majority share to them, leaving Nintendo cornered in the board and effectively screwing us all.
Real talk let's play a game. If Nintendo decided to buy a big company like Sega or Capxom what's stopping an even bigger entity like Microsoft from opening up their check book.
Plus buying these large xiros like you guys seem to be wanting would bring more trouble than good. That would be the quickest way to turn Nintendo into a third party publisher.
Now if I were Nintendo I would look at Medium sized companies like Tecmo Koei, or look into say buying Hudson Soft from Konami. Take a look at Microsoft buying Gears of War, If I were Nintendo I'd look into aquiring Japanese Brands that aren't really being used like Mega Man.
Also I'd look at locking down the companies that already work under Nintendo on a second Party basis. Next Level Games, Platnuim Games, Monster Games, Camelot, Genius Sonority.
Those developers could be bought pretty cheaply and expanded upon to work on various projects.
Next Level Games - Expanded to two teams to be Nintendo's console sports game developer. Super Mario Strikers 3 and Punch Out U.
Camelot- Works on RPGS and Sports games for the handheld that have RPG modes.
Monster Games- Racing games in addition to Mario Kart. Fzero or the Excite series on the big time, while getting another excitebike game for the eshop.
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Rare would be stupid at this point. Microsoft made it a pale shadow of it's former self, there's no talented people left there. What's the point in buying a name?
There still a ton of talented people left like Men Lobby or the due who created banjo. I mean most people who work in the industry have to be talented and all they're games up to this point with Microsoft have gotten good reception either critically or sales wise. Plus Kinect Sports Rivals looks amazing on a technical level.
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Keep in mind that Nintendo could acquire development teams from those companies too. Capcom's main problem is their upper management, and their development teams are still great. I can probably say the same for Sega and Atlus.
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I think actually shelling out huge sums of cash to buy studios is the dumbest thing they could possibly think of...in fact, most of the ideas from the Investor Meeting were out of touch with reality.
This is all they have to do:
Pay for games, like they are already doing with Platinum Games, and that horrible looking Hyrule Warriors game.
Hold onto all of your second party devs, and give them games to develop NOW (Next Level, etc.)
Develop eShop games (like they are already doing with Miyamoto).
Stop making so many platformers all at one time. (Seriously, I love platformers, but my God, NSMBU, NSLU, SM3DW, DKC:TF, are you serious? You could have spaced these out within the lifetime of your system, Nintendo)
Bring back your own IP's, you goofballs! You are going to buy someone else's IP's, when you have your own languishing in the basement? What in the fudge monkeys are you on...crack?!
Day 1 WiiU should have had every game from the Wii VC days. DAY ONE. I'm not saying even WiiU compatible. You could have at least lamed it up with Wii mode. No excuse.
At least 2 Gamecube games should have been ready to go on Day 1. Are you really telling me that you can't get old roms working on an emulator, and running on a system that can already run Gamecube games? Jesus.
I'm done...love their games, but they are truly baffling me, at this point.
There's no sense in buying large studios that already support them (even if it would be a dream to have Nintendo, Sega, Capcom, and hell why not, Konami all under one name). I think they'll go for smaller studios (Level-5), or maybe internalize a couple of second parties (Platinum, Next Level). It wouldn't hurt to acquire a couple of up-and-coming western studios as well.
Iwata is speaking a lot of expanding beyond video games though. Maybe by M&A, he's not even talking about video game studios.
I think actually shelling out huge sums of cash to buy studios is the dumbest thing they could possibly think of...in fact, most of the ideas from the Investor Meeting were out of touch with reality.
This is all they have to do:
Pay for games, like they are already doing with Platinum Games, and that horrible looking Hyrule Warriors game.
Hold onto all of your second party devs, and give them games to develop NOW (Next Level, etc.)
Develop eShop games (like they are already doing with Miyamoto).
Stop making so many platformers all at one time. (Seriously, I love platformers, but my God, NSMBU, NSLU, SM3DW, DKC:TF, are you serious? You could have spaced these out within the lifetime of your system, Nintendo)
Bring back your own IP's, you goofballs! You are going to buy someone else's IP's, when you have your own languishing in the basement? What in the fudge monkeys are you on...crack?!
Day 1 WiiU should have had every game from the Wii VC days. DAY ONE. I'm not saying even WiiU compatible. You could have at least lamed it up with Wii mode. No excuse.
At least 2 Gamecube games should have been ready to go on Day 1. Are you really telling me that you can't get old roms working on an emulator, and running on a system that can already run Gamecube games? Jesus.
I'm done...love their games, but they are truly baffling me, at this point.
I think actually shelling out huge sums of cash to buy studios is the dumbest thing they could possibly think of...in fact, most of the ideas from the Investor Meeting were out of touch with reality.
This is all they have to do:
Pay for games, like they are already doing with Platinum Games, and that horrible looking Hyrule Warriors game.
Hold onto all of your second party devs, and give them games to develop NOW (Next Level, etc.)
Develop eShop games (like they are already doing with Miyamoto).
Stop making so many platformers all at one time. (Seriously, I love platformers, but my God, NSMBU, NSLU, SM3DW, DKC:TF, are you serious? You could have spaced these out within the lifetime of your system, Nintendo)
Bring back your own IP's, you goofballs! You are going to buy someone else's IP's, when you have your own languishing in the basement? What in the fudge monkeys are you on...crack?!
Day 1 WiiU should have had every game from the Wii VC days. DAY ONE. I'm not saying even WiiU compatible. You could have at least lamed it up with Wii mode. No excuse.
At least 2 Gamecube games should have been ready to go on Day 1. Are you really telling me that you can't get old roms working on an emulator, and running on a system that can already run Gamecube games? Jesus.
I'm done...love their games, but they are truly baffling me, at this point.
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