Nintendo Planning to License Its Characters to New Partners
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Yes, I do remember, and it would be damn nice if this happened and Alvin got paid for it.Nooners said:
Captcha: Chuck Norris.
Oooh, irony...
My bad, I thought you were saying I said fan was an insult. So now you've chosen to conflate "fan" and "apologist," though there's no need to. And you feel insulted by your own comparison of the two.xaszatm said:
The rest of my statement applies. I have demonstrated that there are people who fall into the apologetics camp saying what I claimed and you can go check threads around here yourself for them. And while Objectable didn't reach the level of apologetics, you don't need to leave the thread to see someone ridiculing the idea of Nintendo farming out games because of three games they had almost no input on in the 90s as part of an end-of-partnership deal to get Philips off their back.
Again, Iwata was NOT talking about games, but other media and merchandise:xaszatm said:
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=221394
This means we'll probably get new Nintendo merch or stuff from other media like cartoons or whatnot
Well that wasn't entirely their fault. The CD-I situation was a complication of various factors, but basically it was supposed to be an SNES addon. It didn't work out and Nintendo basically couldn't pull the rights from Phillips so they just let it be. Besides it was from the ashes of that debacle we indirectly ended up with the original PlayStation so it wasn't all bad... Ok, yeah those games were horrible and my brain will forever be scarred from actually getting to play them when they came out.Objectable said:
The one problem I see aside from the obvious miracle it would take to bring the right people together for that, though, is Funimation royalties. But aside from that "You're sitting on a goldmine, Trebek!".GamerMage said:
I suspect that "new partners" means companies they had not previously licensed characters to. So Hyrule Warriors wouldn't count since that's the result of licensing to Tecmo Koei to whom Nintendo had previously licensed Metroid to create Other M (Team Ninja is a subsidiary of Tecmo Koei).VG_Addict said:
Not that I like Team Ninja much, but you do know the awful story and the way Samus acted wasn't because of Team Ninja. Team Ninja made the gameplay, which wasn't the best but it at least functioned, the story was written by the Metroid series creator Yoshio Sakamoto...so yeah Nintendo is partially to blame for that as well...Genocidicles said:
I think this is a good opportunity for Square Enix to redeem themselves.
I mean, after the bastardisation of the human brain (and wallet) that was All The Bravest, I think they deserve another chance.
I mean, after the bastardisation of the human brain (and wallet) that was All The Bravest, I think they deserve another chance.
Well if they get developers that like the franchises, it can go rather well. However, it can go either way.
Bad examples: Metroid Other M and those Cd-I games.
Good examples: Donkey Kong country returns and Metroid Prime
If I remember correctly..
Bad examples: Metroid Other M and those Cd-I games.
Good examples: Donkey Kong country returns and Metroid Prime
If I remember correctly..
Especially since they're getting the entire quote wrong. Iwata is saying they're going to license stuff out to NON-game companies like putting out merch or maybe adaptation rights.PeaceRider said:
