Do you think Nintendo would HIRE TH- I mean, save any of the Xbox studios?
Does Nintendo even own any western studios?
>>741219978Double Fine makes good games, but I really don't think they're the kind of studio that Nintendo traditionally works with.But who knows. It could be cool way to get wider portfolio?
>>741220217Retro (Texas) and Next Level Games (Vancouver)
>>741220217They've owned Retro Studios since the game cube days anon....plus buying Next Level Games post Luigi's Mansion3 was big news.>>741219978>Microsoft can't make use of devs for shit>killing like a fifth of their studios>reeeee I hate to admit that Nintendo is competent but please save retard meme developnah. fuck double fine and timmy fag ass.
>>741220780>>741221102Oh yeah I genuinely forgot the metroid studio was western
>>741220414Double Fine would be a good fit for their weirder games like Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi that they already outsource
>>741221202That new metroid game made sure I can't forget
>>741220073They don't actually play these games, they just think men should play them, and it's biting these studios in the ass. The actual women are playing the sims, bejeweled and animal crossing and the transsexuals are speedrunning Nintendo games from 1996 for the 100,000th time.
>Nintendo should buy this western slop studio!
>>741220073they don't play any games at allthey just hate Humanity with every fiber of their being
>>741221289I don't think DF have the right culture for working on comedy games with a Japanese sensibility. If Nintendo did buy them (not going to happen) then I'd want them to work on original games with significant guidance by Nintendo.
>>741220073Lefty games aren't made for them to like, they're made for YOU to hate. That's why they're always gloating about how much the chuds are going to hate something, but never talking about how much THEY like it.
Nintendo should keep doing what they have been and just buffet shop for the best devs of every studieo that got fired and either have them be part of a new team or assimilate them into existing ones to supplement them.You only buy a studio outright if you want the IPs, which Nintendo doesn't need.>>741220073>Election tourist
Everyone assumes Nintendo will do fucking anything when it'll be Tencent and Embracer grabbing IP bargains.
>>741220414Nintendo would tard wrangle Tim Schafer so hard that he would quite within the first six monthsThey expect gameplay demos before anything else
>Double FineGod please no, just let those fat soiboys die already and leave the game's industry forever. They have never made a single good game yet keep failing upwards.
>>741219978>"I hate sloptendo. They are so greedy and evil and greedy!!!">"AAAYYYYIIIIEEEEEE!!! PLEASE BUY OUR FAILING STUDIOS NINTENDO!!! WE NEED SAVING FROM OUR OWN RETARDATION!!!"
>>741219978>nintendo should really buy this flop machine>the only good game they made was in a genre Nintendo can destroy them in.Not a chance. There is zero reason to want them
>>741219978>I hate every last bit of it>(pass the hard liquor) what? why? do they drink every time they have to think about nintendo?
>>741219978You get Rare and like it.>>741224578It will not be Tencent as they're getting Blizzard and King.
>>741222901This, its just hate and spite
>>741224578>grab the IP>fire everyone >chink workers being paid $1 an hour making the next Brutal Legends gamekek
>>741225528Psychonauts shits all over every 3D Mario ever though
>>741219978Bobby was right about Tim.
>>741219978they're not Nintendo partners like HAL, Intelligent Systems or Koei Tecmo so nope.
>>741220073They don't want to play the games, they're just spiteful little goblins who want to ruin something for straight men.
>>741220073The sales prove they never play the things they demand or champion. As a market they should be ignored completely. Issue is they've wormed there way into positions in game development where their bubble believes trash like this is what people demand and when it fails they inevitably blame the failure on something unrelated.
>>741227614Koei Tecmo is still independent as they still make PS5 games.
>>741227471>this shit is better than this shitsure
>>741227694>independentso are HAL, IS and Game Freak. The point is that Nintendo and KT have a close relantionship so if KT were going to die or be bought by someone else, Nintendo would probably intervene.
>>741219978>"this infectious, diseased western studio would be an awesome fit">"because i said so"
Why would anyone want to buy a shitty studio?
>>741228308Thing is Game Freak did make PS4 and XBox One games and are working on a PS5 and Xbox Series S/X game.Intelligent Systems hasn't done non-Nintendo work since the PS1 with Tear Ring Saga (which was just Fire Emblem 64 rebranded) which Nintendo sued them for (the PS2 sequel was by another company) while Hal was done some micro consoles off of a few vintage Japanese PCs and 2 mobile games, one was sold off to Nintendo and released on Switch 1 (Part Time UFO) while the other has it's servers shut down due to being a walking app with game play elements.
>>741219978Nintendo hired a bunch of devs from MS studios for Metroid Prime 4 and look how that turned out.
>>741219978FUCK no. Nintendo generally avoids outside studios to begin with.They'll be a platform for any games those studios put out. Nothing more.
>>741220217>>741220780>>741221102NST bros we are forgotten.
>>741220073>How do leftists look at that stupid fucking image and go wow, i really want to play this game>what the fuck is wrong with themBecause "I want to play this game" is not a priority for them.
Double Fine has literally nothing of worth to Nintendo. They have like one franchise with a cult fanbase, that has failed to get off the ground twice.
>>741227471Which one is the face of gaming and which ones has its devs closing down?
>>741220073>wow, i really want to play this gameThe funniest part is that they actually dont, thats why the woke studios are all going baknrupt and closing, they seethe all day in the internet debating chuds that said they wont buy the games made for their modern audience, but most of them dont even buy nor even have consoles, complete ousiders defending their ideology on products in a market they arent even interested being part of.
>>741220073it's about sending a message
>>741227471It really doesn't. It has moderately fun dialogue, and every part of the gameplay is sub-par.Double Fine could never make anything as genuinely fantastic and fun as Odyssey. All they know is Dreamworks snark.
>>741228897IS had nothing to do with Tear Ring Saga (apart from the work Kaga stole).
>>741227607He was, yet he's still worse by a mile.
>>741219978No.
>>741219978>nintendo should buy a sinking ship that just decided to unionizelmao
>>741227607Microsoft should've kept Bobby on as a threat to send at underperforming studios.
>>741220073Conservatives are Retarded. Hellblade is a shit series with bad sales, not even Leftists buy it. Do you think every retarded boomer humour show that crashes and burns because it isn't funny is proof that the right wing hates shit? Of course not.Leftists have like 90% of all Media to pick from. They don't need to love and support every game because they have so many to pick from. They'll just go play Deltarune, or Ocarina of Time or BG3 or Witcher 3 or whatever.
>>741220073>Leftist You retards are genuinely obsessedfucking noone called hellblade1 some "leftist political game" a decade ago, and the sequel wasn't more political eitherDevs don't think about political shit when they decided to make a game in the typical gritty, not-pretty artstyle that has been popular in movies since decades
>>741228897IS just doesn’t see a benefit on being purchased, they are even in the same building as the other Nintendo devs
>>741219978I'm wondering why Nintendo, from all the companies, are supposed to be the saviours of gaming industry now.Most third parties in the past fifteen years actively ignored the company and now they're scrambling to reach to the platform and consequently the fanbase.Just what the hell they were thinking?
>>741219978The vast majority of Xbox studios aren't worth saving. Seriously how tf is Nintendo going to profit from buying Double Fine?
>>741229064I did forget about them kekWell the Galaxy ports sold close to 4M copies each so they should be fine
>>741220073they don't play gamesthey don't enjoy anythingthey hate fun, beauty and everything that's objectively good and right
double fine don't make fun games.they make retarded art-piece shitpost games, that's why they're a money-sink company
>>741229923>Most third parties in the past fifteen years actively ignored the company and now they're scrambling to reach to the platform and consequently the fanbase.News flash, the higherups are slow and retarded. You can bet your left testicle that even back in 2017-2020 they were sucking off sony believing the switch will sell like the wiiu and only started backpeddaling recently.
>>741219978LMAO
>>741219978no, double fine been garbage, their last 2 games look like indie games but indead of made by 10ish people max it a overbloated studio with too much money.
Ninja theory? More like Nigga theory Cuz nigga what were they thinking >lets make another super expensive short game nobody wants
>>741229930very carefully :^)
>>741219978Nintendo don't buy lost causes. If they were going around buying doomed studios they'd have bought Alphadream.
>>741230498If that's the case, then they're actually retarded and not just pretend to be. That's because Switch sold the same that Wii U did on it's lifetime in ten months.
>>741220073Many choices made by these people aren't based on what they actually like or are passionate about, but rather "is this a good thing to do". If you're in a design meeting with other like minded lefties you want to make -positive- suggestions, ie "this should have more diversity" "it would be cool if we could make it about personal trauma" "can we add a line about man bad woman good but show a (brown) man being good too?" "Other games do [thing], we should do it too" "this looks like a game you would see doing well"It's all performative. The purest devs I've seen are a handful of H-game creators because you can tell they just want to make something around their fetish.I used to love dandy boy adventures before they ran out of money.
>>741219978why the fuck would nintendo buy double fine? why the fuck would ANYBODY buy double fine? they don't have any worthwhile IPs to buy in the first place, and their studio has a track record for taking an incredibly long time to actually finish producing the rather short and simple games they make
>>741231372They had the plan of buying Alphadream, but the team was defuncted prior the acquisition.
>>741219978They could but they won't
>>741229823>w-we didn't do those things! w-we didn't say those things!sure
>>741219978Nintendo is smart enough to not waste their money>"waaah waahh somebody has to save the STUDIO. think of the STUDIO"they failed. dissolve the fucking thing and sell the IP. if there are talented people they are readily available to rehire on a case-by-case basis. buying a failing asset like this only makes your company worse, Microsoft wasn't smart enough to understand this for some reason.
>>741224403Nintendo not poaching Davide from Ubisoft is a fuck up tho.
>>741219978the only reason he thinks double fine would be a great fit for nintendo is that they're one of the only major companies left that haven't cut ties with them. nobody else wants anything to do with their money pit adult daycare of a studio
>>741229384They did the PS1 game under another name to avoid Nintendo catching them, they got caught because one of their executives' kids beat the game and saw the staff credits being nothing but Intelligent Systems staff who were all under contract through Nintendo so they sued as a result.>>741229870Yes they do, Excluded Tear Ring Saga for the PS1 everything they did was for Nintendo hardware, at least Hal did some Vic 20,C64, PC-88 and MSX stuff before becoming Nintendo exclusive.>>741229923Because Microsoft and Sony fucked up that badly.
>>741229264>appeal to popularity>>741229364>every part of the gameplay is sub-par.Every part of Mario gameplay is sub-par, and everything else is also sub-par
>>741227471>>741232602>3D Mario is bad, because.... it just is, okay??
>>741229823>noone called hellblade1 some "leftist political game" a decade agoThat was like... the first thing anyone said about it.
>>741232602Not true, case in point.
>>741232686>3D Mario is good, because.... it just is, okay??
>>741227653You don't see it much anymore but back when woke media started bombing they would just call the audience racist and/or sexist to absolve themselves of blame.
>>741232198>They did the PS1 game under another name to avoid Nintendo catching them, they got caught because one of their executives' kids beat the game and saw the staff credits being nothing but Intelligent Systems staff who were all under contract through Nintendo so they sued as a result.It was under Enterbrain (the RPGMaker guys). But yeah they very blatantly remixed certain FE maps, mechanics characters and scenarios in it. Like even from FE1 which Kaga didn't direct, but he stole Chapter 3's scenario with Lena and Julian escaping the bandits as Map 2 of Tearing Saga. But just flipped the direction of the mountain range they're escaping and changed Julian to an Axe Fighter.
>>741224403>studieosaar
>>741233967Kaga was so retarded for thinking he could get away with a lot of the shit he pulled with TRS. He's lucky all he had to do was change some names and recolor some assets for Nintendo to let go and let him release TRS. Still a decently fun time and some of the weirdly cryptic stuff you can do in the game made it decently replayable. Just needed to make a handful of maps not complete dogwater (indoor maps with annoyingly narrow hallways and very few unmounted units with good move to make less annoying and swamp maps) and it would be pretty great.
when was the last time double fine made anything that was financially successful ?
Why the fuck would Nintendo buy a SF shitpile that pay 100x what a jp dev gets and that makes walking sims that don't sell?You can't even pretend it's like they have a niche fanbase. I fucking kickstartered their piece of shit point and click and it was utterly inferior to even AGS indie games.
>>741233241They've got great controls, level design, enemy designs, music, art direction, etc.What exactly about them is subpar compared to Psychonauts, other than humor and writing?
What is DF even working on? I thought their reason to exist would have evaporated after releasing Psychonauts 2.
>>741235474>They've got great controls, level designIrrelevant given that they're trivially easy to beat even for actual kids>enemy designs, music, art direction, etc.The most safe generic rounded corners designs and art in the industry with zero identity or interesting hooks
>>741237568that's not true. They're trivially easy to reach the end of. Actually beating those games is a reasonable challenge.
>>741237568Also>zero identity.You don't play games, brohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfoYSmx0rk
>>741239197>bro just spend 5 hours sleepwalking through these inane toddler levels then you get 3 kaizo levels as a reward No thanks, I'll just play actually good games instead
>>741219978Didn't Tim's studio just constantly miss deadlines and burn through money? And nobody cares about anything they make that isn't Psychonauts. Why would anyone buy that?
>>741239449>implying Psychonauts 1 & 2 even have thatControlling poorly =/= difficult
>>741239663They're not very good in that regard but they're not as braindead as Mario either, and they have interesting stories, characters, visuals, music etc on top
>>741239569>you now remember that tim got 2.2 million to make 1/2 of a point and click adventure game>it was 2 years late
>>741224403>when the copy clearly surpasses the original
>>741239449Every stage in 64 and Sunshine have tough stars.
>>741240120So they're bad platformers with passable stories...
>>741241197That you are given no motivation to pursue >>741241270As opposed to Mario games which are bad platformers with no stories
>>741241379>no motivationFun?I'm sorry it's not snarky Gen-X writing like The Critic....
>>741219978Doubtful. Don't they historically only buy studios that they already have years of experience working with? Even then, you have examples like AlphaDream where they didn't buy the studio at all when it finally went under, just poached most of the staff on their way out and hired them internally.Hell, now that I think about it, have Nintendo ever bought an external IP, and beyond that, developed anything for it? I think it's only them licensing out their own more than anything (Smash third parties notwithstanding).
>>741231875Got to agree with that, or the more talented star link devs since if you strip out the toyetic aspects, it's got a good base skeleton, specially for a star fox game.
>>741229870I mean there really isn't one.Nintendo would pay 50mil or whatev to secure them as 1st party owned, when they already are basically.It'd just be a waste of money on both sides.Only gamefreak is the real 'worthwhile' one so nintendo could force a full restructuring. Yet it'd be like 300mil to buy GF out. So just not worth it at all.
>>741240220I remember the CEO of Daedalic (before they sold out to the book publisher and raped the studio into the dirt) seething about it when Double Fine started whining for more money and said that with 2.2 million they could have put out 3-4 well-polished point & clicks in half the time.
>>741231372Alpha dream killed themselves>only mario mario IP games. Thus need to pay licensing fees. Dont even try to do an original IP in like 15 years as a collab with nintendo ala ever oasis, astral chain, wonderful101 to get better earnings and show you have extra value>refuse to learn 3d hd development. At all. So once the 2d handheld era dies you get fucked over and have no future proofing.>dont offer to be a partial support dev to nintendo like monolith or grezzo. Furthershowing you have no real value to keep>die for mobage gacha puke shit meme via sony.Bemcause the prior points need to remake a 3ds game....on the 3ds.Alpha dream killed themselves.If they were able to make bowser's inside story + jr genocide march as a switch exclusive they'd still be alive.Not nintendo's problem
>>741219978Screw Microsoft and Sony. Let them suffer.
>>741232602>moving the goalposts
>>741231416Yes they are deeply retarded.Sony was buying the executives of these studios famcy dinners, helicopter rides, cars, possibly cunny, etc.They became snoy slaves due to it and let their companies rot
>>741232198Are you the guy who thinks Xenoblade Genesis is illegal?
>Nintendo should pick up the original Kickstarter grifterslmao
>>741237568>>741239449>snoygger meltyGo stream yourself playing mario 64 then faggot, let's see your skills at work.
>>741229804Half of the games you mentioned are from the right wing
>>741219978>pass the hard liquor please
>>741219978No. Just no.
>>741219978>Nintendo should buy this shitty Woke grifter slop makerHow about NO.
>>741220414>double fine makes good games
>Nintendo should buy this Female open mouth scream hear me roar devNo thank you.Once you get the stink of San fran political devs on you, it never comes out.
>>741241460No that's not how it works, maybe you have a bias for Nintendo so you're willing to do the game designer's job for them and thank them for the opportunity, but game design needs to push the player to push themselves somehow, otherwise you could say any game is fun, the player is just playing it wrong
>>741224403troon
>>741232602>appeal to popularityA fallacy means you can discard his argument but it doesn't mean he's wrong.
>>741219978Why were the hellblade devs so smug about everything
>>741244828It means he failed to even try to prove he's right
>>741219978>Make game>Next to no actual gameplay
>>741223904This, also why was that post deleted. Because anon talked about leftists, and the Janny got mad, lol.
>>741233967>>741235192>kaga tried to be a backstabbing snoynot even surprised at this point, explains why his games get wanked so much
>>741219978Hear me ROAR!!!
>>741219978After Retro flopped with Prime4 I doubt Nintendo want to buy a western studio
>>741243954Nah, just needs fun controls and a sandbox to mess around in
>>741227471Psychonauts felt like a long tutorial
>>741227607Poop all over his hands. Disgusting!
Apparently somebody missed the memo about Nintendo liking profits.
>>741219978Why should Nintendo buy these retarded Xbox failed companies?
>>741219978only if they want to swallow the same DEI poison Sony and Microsoft took
>>741248652Anyone who makes "growling strong womyn" deserves bankruptcy.
>>741249229Nope, that's what you have to tell yourself because Nintendo couldn't design better games
>>741219978Someone has the septic tank image?
>>741220780They really should buy MercurySteam that made Dread, their latest game Blades of Fire was great and they seems do not care about woke stuff
>>741219978>Nintendo should buy Double FineHELL NO. Let this woke company burn to ashes.
>>741232198>because one of their executives' kids beat the game and saw the staff credits being nothing but Intelligent Systems staffFirst I hear about the credits story, but there's an alternate story I heard aboutFirst of all Famitsu changed its name from Famicom Tsushin sometime after a private meeting with Squaresoft and Sony in late 1993 where they were showing off 3D CGI to loads of Super Famicom third parties to convince them to jump ship to the PlayStation and drop Nintendo hard.Famitsu are game journalists, their parent company is enterbrain, but they played a dangerous game and decided to get involved in game development and heavily support Sony's PR. Word is that they hyped up some Game Boy Color strategy game by Shozo Kaga unnaturally to hype him up as some major creative, knowing well in advance he's planning to quit. Then they offered to publish his game. It's not unlikely that Sony was involved in some way.Nintendo/IS' own Fire Emblem 64 was planned as an SRPG with 3D and an isometric view, and immediately got in development hell and cancellation when he got out of IS, but Kaga had the gall of using very similar 3D screenshots to promote HIS Tear Ring Saga, and claimed in various interviews that Tear Ring Saga would be a continuation of the Fire Emblem series set in a different continent but using the exact same setting, world building, names, story and everything. The character was blue haired, he had the character design from Thracia 566 jump ship with him, even the name was the barely legally distinct Emblem Saga. It sold as well as a mainline Fire Emblem entry.And Nintendo saw that and initiated the lawsuit proceedings, they didn't wait until the release or for a kid to play until the credits, and that's what caused the Tear Ring changes. Sony wanted a Nintendo-exclusive series to become PS-exclusive, bought off its developers and the press, even tried to steal Nintendo's actual game files... a precedent they didn't want
>>741243954I mean, they've to make n design a game. For you to do challenge run in it. It's true for other companies, (if they make a game), I hear Fromsoft has that. But in this case, there's a Tough Star placed in a certain spot? The design then is in placing the star, in a place that requires the player to go and reach it, and player motivation is beating the game.More than achievements. You didn't 100percent without the star.
>>741243954This is just bait, but I do believe people actually think like this, and I don't understand it. Video games are all about player agency, even the most railroaded games typically have some small degree of it in terms of the pace in which the game progresses. Nobody bats an eye at the idea of choosing to play a game with more challenge over less, or the idea of NOT choosing the easy mode builds in something like Dark Souls (which can completely trivialise the games, by the way, just try a magic build and see), yet the idea of choosing to do the content you find fun, rather than exclusively doing the unchallenging content you hate is inexplicably where people draw the line. Genuinely, you are responsible for your own fun, it's only your fault if you deliberately choose to avoid having it.
>>741219978Funny that a ransomware leak of Nintendo of America employee emails and feedback had some messages from 2024 worried about DEI, "the company getting involved in the culture war", and the "serious damage to Nintendo's brand" caused by incidents like "awful Pokemon GO redesigns", "censoring dialogue" and "making a character trans in Paper Mario" (JP 2004 was otokonoko, effeminate boy, JP text was changed for Switch to match NoA editor insanity)and talking about "gaming failures resulting in layoffs and studio closures" in the same breath as DEI.https://x.com/ultima_flashs/status/2066562454071501215And that the main reason why NST isn't allowed to work on big projects anymore is that they shat the bed with Project Hammer in 2006 when Iwata wanted them to focus on the gameplay and the burgers were picking fights with the "xenophobic" nips who weren't appreciating "cultural sensibilities", so NCL forced them to drop the story and existing realistic graphics and focus on the gameplay with more cartoony basic shapes, resulting in "massive morale loss at NoA and many resignations". I wouldn't put it beyond Double Fine to write "writing guidelines" for NCL and other branches at Nintendo the instant they're hired, the Naughty Dog way with Sony.
>>741250232Well shit. I had Psychonauts 2 on my wishlist for ages. Guess that's one less game I have to buy.
>>741250232>>741251151One of her most obvious contributions was that a major giant wedding-themed level was altered and recontextualized to be about a gay wedding.
>>741251085I won't believe a word of this until the leak is in my hands, honestly. Too many faggots exist who are willing to make up bullshit for attention.
>>741251264Jesus christ. I'm now noticing the LGBT+ tag on steam, so that tracks. I'm glad the game almost never went on reasonable sale or I'd be finding this shit out the hard way.
>>741251085Could I get a link to what has been leaked? I really want to read about how right everyone is about NoA being absolutely fucking retarded.
psychonauts 2 was obviously the last good game DF was ever going to make and it's hilarious microsoft has kept funding them for years as if they had anything to offerthey've been spamming news feeds for their older games begging people to play kiln
>>741226291>RareNintendo wouldn't buy the studio At most they'd buy the IPs and even then it's unlikelyThere's only one pragmatic reason to do it and only IF Microsoft was looking to sell and that'd be to secure re-releases and full ownership of Diddy Kong Racing and Donkey Kong 64 (it has Jetpack in it)Other than that, there's no reason or way to justify buying an entire IP catalog they can't reasonably support to their investors
>>741251024>just try a magic build and seethought the meta easy mode build was shield and fat rolling STR and VIT
>>741251085>so NCL forced them to drop the story and existing realistic graphics and focus on the gameplay with more cartoony basic shapes, resulting in "massive morale loss at NoA and many resignations".Gigabased from NCL if true.CHniggers BTFO.
>>741251085>had some messages from 2024 worried about DEI,isn't that about the time motherfucking rainfall 2 happened?
Do any of nintendo's smaller studios put out REALLY good stuff? They are all mediocre. Solid, but not worth getting excited aboutYou get the overly cutesy yoshi games, the overly cutesy kirby games like epic yarn, and overly cutesy princess peach game. Then you get the mario spinoffs like strikers and brothership. They were both disappointing. Luigi's mansion 2 and 3 were mindless. Like playing a boring ass lego game, just looking for easter eggs. Then the xenoblade games are the only ones I'd say were quality games, but still super fucking niche and I can't enjoy even though I know they're well made
>>741219978It would make make sense with Sony.Why would Nintendo need more platformers?
They tried to make Xbox sound super cool before by saying they were really hands off a chill with their studios or whatever but it would have been much kinder in the long run to force them to keep making high profile hits so they could stay employed.
>>741251085>>741252149Oh fuck.It's true.>Anons mass-contacting NCL about faggot SBI and DEI policies actually resulted on NoA getting kicked in the balls and a lot of literal faggots quitting nintendo.And this happens literally a week after the blancfag starts acting like NoA's game bans are NCL's fault for not keeping NoA in a short enough leash.I hope good news like this keep dropping.
>>741219978>Studio that is fell so hard that only redditos and game journos talk about their game about female with mental health issues and not because of its gameplay, is closing down>People pretend its not fairDo people seriously want ninja theory to stay open? Enslaved was a flop, so was heavenly sword. Their online multiplayer game currently has 0 players and its peak in the last 3 years was 14 players, DmC became such a joke that capcom took back the IP and made DMC5
>>741251410This, but it doesn't matter since it fits their narrative.
>>741251085This feels like it was written to confirm my biases, I call BS.
>>741251967Magic is also pretty busted, honestly, since enemy AI deals with ranged attacks poorly overall. Pyromancy is also another build which has a reputation for being braindead easy, too.
>>741219978>Almost 200 posts and only two Anons have mentioned the actual intelligent thing to do: >>741226291 >>741251637They should buy Rare, or to be more accurate: buy as many of Rare's IP's as cunt Microsoft will let them purchase. I know everybody can name some obvious acquisitions like Banjo Kazooie, Conker, but they should try to scoop up Perfect Dark and Viva Pinata if they're willing to part with it.
>>741251085Proof or gtfo
Why the fuck should Nintendo even care about any of this shitThey have everything they need
>>741224403I see that image have struck a nerver with troons
If they ever make a move, they'll wait until MS shuts down Rare to buy the IPs back and give them to Retro.
>>741251494>>741252974>>741253192Just check the twitter link in the post you're replying to, it has other leaked messages that would be a tad bit lengthy to fake.Nintendo confirmed to the press that a leak happened, that twitter user has access to someone who has access to the leaksthe twitter narrative is that this was from 2024 from the same employee and that all of nintendo is woke and that they should fire him / already fired him, but reality isn't as simple because Homodachi Life also released with the anti hitler roleplaying word filter turned off
>>741224403oof such seething
>>741232194>with their money pit adult daycare of a studioDo you understand how little that narrows things down?
>>741220780Poor fucking Retro, man.Forced to inherit the Prime 4 work Nintendo left in dev purgatory
>>741252369Sony wants their wokeslop in ultra high definition and 100 gorillion polygons worked on by half of hollywood's available vfx teams and pushing their hardware to the limits, so they would not see as much value in double fine's indie-budget wokeslop>platformerswhat
>>741251085>>741252581>>741253561>Anons bitching directly to nintendo did in fact fucking work and result in westoids losing their jobs.No wonder faggots like the blancfag were utterly shitting their pants when anons started to do it.To anyone that did contact NCL even if it was with a google translated message, what did you guys write lmao?
>>741253351kek pretty funny to think they are fuming
They should give Metroid to Fromsoft. Drop the FPS.
>>741253936I think you replied to your own post more than anyone else
>>741254146thats a sign of schizophrenia, common among mentally ill trannies like yourself.
>>741252012That has less to do with culture clashes and more to do with how Nintendo does game development basicallyNintendo loves starting with demos where the characters are little more than generic NES sprites or basic geometric shapes (rectangles and circles): Splatoon, Zelda Breath of the Wild, Kirby... sometimes they go ahead and release the prototype as is, like with Box Boy.NST was working on other Wii projects besides Project Hammer and for one of them (completely cancelled) they blew half of the budget on expensive prerendered cutscenes with barely any work done on the game, what NCL was seeing was a studio with a complete lack of vision that's very irresponsible with money and unfamiliar with game development, so they wanted them to go back to the basics and prototype the actual game. (which is what keeps them from doing a mistake similar to Sonic Xtreme where the game can't run on the target hardware and doesn't have a clear or fun gameplay loop)If it's a different developer like Monolith Soft (Disaster Day of Crisis, Xenoblade) they're perfectly willing to give them chances, for those games Monolith got started right away with compelling vertical slices that are release-quality and regularly met their deadlines and budget obligations. (Come to think of it it's probably not a coincidence that NoA was so salty about Monolith Soft their games were all Japan/Europe only for a while, and the irony is that they're a major Nintendo studio right now)
>>741254401Yeah samefagging is pretty schizophrenic glad we agree
>>741250183MS would be a terrible buy, nintendo isnt retarded
>>741250183why buy the studio and deal with pointless political baggage and literal HR dead weight when they already hired the talent?
>>741219978>Studio that makes narrative driven plataforming studio should work with the "no narrative" driven plataforming studioThis is like saying "John Carpenter should work David Lynch, they both make movies"
>>741224578True. I'm tired of Embracer ruining my games desu ne
>>741254672nobody likes you freaks, why would i need to samefag. you aren't amongst friends here.
>>741241570>AlphaDream where they didn't buy the studio at all when it finally went underThey did them dirty and it did cost them the cancellation of a Tomato Adventure remake/sequel for the Switch (it's also a Nintendo game), but it was understandable given the circumstances.Basically some mobile-focused branch of Sony was going around enticing developers to do gasha games, Nippon Ichi and Alpha Dream (and likely Sega, for that Sakura Taisen game) fell for it and incurred catastrophic losses. NIS almost got bankrupt but recovered, Sega had an excellent fiscal quarter so they only got away with an extraordinary loss annihilating their gains for that quarter and then survived, but Alpha Dream kept limping with that big wound and their final game was a M&L 3DS remake delayed by Nintendo all the way to fucking 2019 and the 2020 Olympics game that Nagoshi commissioned just so that the Mario & Sonic series is no longer Nintendo exclusive, which ended up delayed and Alpha Dream never surviving that.By then Nintendo was probably considering them as potential traitors which explains the extent of their goodwill was to just poach their talent
>>741219978I love how everyone blames XBox for this. This is a systemic problem across all game studios, they get handed a pile of money to make GAMES and they take the money, make no or or shitty games for years while everyone in said studio eats a free lunch. Sony handed Bungie HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS and that dude walked away with 60 sports cars, this wasn't in the news years ago. Same thing with Microsoft and Bethesta all all the other retarded lazy studios that thought they could suck the tit forever and not be kicked out of the nest.MAKE GAMES, or fuck off and die.
>>741255570>Basically some mobile-focused branch of Sony was going around enticing developers to do gasha gamesDamn, I'd never even heard of this game. And I especially didn't know that it was the same initiative that bore Makai Wars (presumably, going by years). That does explain a bit more why they were left high and dry, I suppose.
>woketards getting let go left and right for their woke slop>Suddenly tranny vitriol increase tenfold No need for the salt mines
>>741256013But this is an instance where you can blame Xbox AND the developers AND the woke hr and writers.Microsoft is infamous for mismanaging studios and games.Crackdown 3 was delayed for years because they wanted it to support "the cloud", ended up a multiplayer-exclusive limited cloud computing feature shoehorned on an under baked game.True Fantasy Life for the Xbox was cancelled in 2004 despite being fully playable and complete, under Microsoft's insistence and despite Level-5's efforts to release the game, after multiple development delays caused by Microsoft requesting the RPG to be reworked as an MMO, then to support voice chat, for a service that Microsoft themselves were planning to discontinue soon.Crimson Dragon for the Xbox 360 had Kinect controls shoehorned, then just before release and despite the game already being out in Japan for 3 hours Microsoft cancelled it and had the developers remove the Kinect controls and port it to the Xbox One, and then delayed it two more years.Blinx was by ex-Sonic staff, and Microsoft basically gave it a bad american box art character design ingameScalesbound... would have been similar to Bayonetta Origins but Microsoft wanted a different art direction. Platinium Games is shady but they did release games just fine for Activision and Nintendo with content cuts to offset for the development troubles.When Microsoft was throwing money at nip third parties for exclusivity, they would often suddenly stop leaving them in trouble so many Xbox and X360 games (like Cry On by Mistwalker) were cancelled.Rare was bought by Microsoft when they still had a bunch of games under development as GameCube-exclusives. Microsoft allowed them to finish those (with some questionable decisions) and released most of them as Xbox exclusives, they did a weird stunt where they wanted a multiplatform Goldeneye with an inferior Wii version, and Nintendo/Activision refused, then Rare somehow barely released anything for TWENTY years.
>>741258216To paraphrase. Xbox handed out bags of money with no over-site, then they studios went out for sushi.Mismanagement on a multi-billion dollar scale. You love to see it.
>>741256013>This is a systemic problem across all game studios, no, only western ones and westernized ones like SE and crapcombut even then neither SE or crapcom take a decade to deliver no games while wasting half a billion
>>741260867This
>>741219978The only xbox studio that fits with nintendo is rare. If nintendo wasn't so gay they might consider picking up arkane and turning them into the metroid prime studio.
>>741258216Fantasy Life.... had a hard life...
>the psychonauts vs mario 64 fag againI hope they know you got their back bro
>>741224403The second image is accurately describing the first.
>>741219978>Nintendo should buy a fagged up san francisco studio that produces nothing but drama and flops
>>741261938Is he the same guy that talks about "mario voids"?
>>741253778>Herro Retro! Prease fixu mai gamu. >No! You can't remove Myles.
>>741263750This guy is a scapegoat. It wasnt his fault MP4 is shit. Nintendo forced them to use Bamco's code and make it work.
>>741253145Rare's IPs are so intertwined it'd probably end up being an all or nothing deal sans Sea of Thieves, Blackwyche (it's main character is explicitly in SoT, not just as an easter egg), and Kinect SportsSure you can work around audio references like how Rare Replay removed the Donkey Kong Country music in Blast Corps but Sabreman is outright in Banjo Tooie
>>741219978
>>741264605>h-he's just a scapegoat! it just so happens that everything he worked on turns to shit
>>741263750>>741268196mckenzie isn't the only problem with mp4 although I know the game was in dev hell, the game design of 4 is awful even without marvel quips
Double Fine misses deadlines and goes overbudget with their big projects. Nintendo wouldn't even give them a look. It's more likely they buy that studio that is doing the Starfox game which is getting great impressions.
>>741268196funny how the doomfag karma over this resulted in picrel
>>741220414>Double Fine makes good gamesthey make narrativeslop
Nintendo are bottom feeders and rapists, giving people a terrible experience, ripping them off. So something so disgusting as hiring ninja theory seems possible. They are that antihuman.
Double Fine does not fit nintendo at all. Nintendo doesnt use much humor let alone western humor. The gameplay in DF is mostly secondary while narrative and "experience" takes lead. Nintendo also doesnt like to shake things that much visually. They play around with styles but its still very much their own IPs.Plus their issues with managing
>>741269272Yeah because Metroid Prime 4 was right on schedule, right
>>741272035Narrativeslop > toddlerslop
>>741255570>Basically some mobile-focused branch of Sony was going around enticing developers to do gasha gameshow can a company be this shit, incompetent, evil and influential at the same time
>>741252974odds of something confirming by biases being bullshit or real is about 50/50 at this point.
I don't think nintendo is really keen on studios with infinite deadlines, especially after Metroid.
i dont think nintendo likes working with bums who need to be whipped to get even the tiniest amount of work out of them. just look at silicon knights.
Nintendo didn't think Rare AT THEIR PRIME was worth buying, does OP's pic think Double Fine at their lowest is?
>>741220414They would've 100% bought the studio if it was in N64 era, it has similar vibe to Rare, and Nintendo is obsessed with being the next Dinsey so it's no brainer for them to buy ex-LucasArts studio.I doubt they would do that in current era though, Nintendo is no longer interested in that kind of visuals, and Double Fine is too old to use the "I used to work for George Lucas" card.
>>741253840>>741252581Ive been telling people to never let up the pressure.All these appeals to triviality, deflections and boasting that nothing would ever change all came from bad actors trying to demoralize.
>>741251085>>741252149>>741252581>Anons actually caused japanese style firings (where they force the fags to quit) by just sending sternly worded letters to NCL.No wonder the usual fags were so fucking scared when anons started to organize for that.Though mind you what's actually shocking and I say this as a former vitafag turned switchfag, is that nintendo japan actually listened so well and so fast, unironically fucking insane.
>>741219978>Ugh... nintendo amirite, my fellow redditors? *pukes*>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NINTENDO MAN SAVE ME I'LL SUCK YOUR DICK AND EAT YOUR SHITWhat is the name of this mental illness?
>>741227471Psychonauts was a Youtube essaybait game made before Youtube even existed.
Kiln was the most Nintendo feeling game I've seen for a while.
we got the karma bomb of the week
>>741219978My personal read is that these subhuman journos see the writing on the wall for mainstream western development, so they want to see the cancer get absorbed into much healthier japanese studios.American AAA was so big that it could throw its weight around to tell other regions how they should make their games. This is going away.Game journos are always primarily pro western games because thats who pays them and thats where their friends are.
>>741219978>nintendo should buy a moviegame studioIs this guy for real
>>741219978Literally none of them make the types of games Nintendo is interested in, maybe not even Double Fine.
>>741220414>>741221289>>741223392>>741229185>Double FineNintendo should not under any circumstances buy any Studio based in Commiefornia. They are expensive to maintain and they would just turn Mario and Luigi into trannies.
>>741219978Why would Nintendo buy a studio that makes female mental illness simulators?>BUT THE GRAPHICS!Fuck off.
>>741279568>>BUT THE GRAPHICS!The funny thing is Nintendo already a western studio that have a knack for game with really good graphics, Its pic related and they already busy making the next Luigi Mansion why the fuck would need another one.
>>741219978Rare and thats it.>>741220780Also NERD (France) and NST (Redmond Washington).>>741251637They will, Nater Drake said so himself.
>>741253203Rare was everything to them during the 5th generation.
>get the axe for being useless drain of resources for your parent company>”p-please buy us out we’ll totally make good games this time promise!”
>>741237101that is a great question
>>741252236Debunked.
>>741219978I HATE those pathetic subhumanshopefully they have burnt enough bridges to not have anywhere else the fail upward into despite this sack of shit trying to help them
>>741219978Double Fine alone would drain the budget of every other nintendo game because of how fucking incompetent and jewish Mr Shitface is
>>741224403>>741262091it really does lmaothere are a few pics like the weed one and the fellow non woke ones that never fail to make them seethe
>>741255008you don't NEED to samefag, you just do it because you're insecure
>nintendo should buy double fineliterally who is this retard and why does he have a blue checkmark (stigmata of the false prophet)?
>>741251151it is a great fucking game but you can really feel her influence in the gay wedding and the new young recruits
>>741256013>MAKE GAMES, or fuck off and die.Best we can do is propagandatake it or leave it
I can't believe xbox is shutting down studios that are wasting their money
>>741224403I actually don't get the first image. Can someone with high IQ explain.
>>741280748you have to be schizophrenic to understand
>>741224403>You only buy a studio outright if you want the IPs, which Nintendo doesn't need.Rare will like to have a word with you, and Nintendo needs Rare alot more then Microsoft does.
>>741280748fag complaining people are not allowing his kind to pull a newspeak with basic normal stuff like friend gatherings by calling it something they can pretend it's a crime to target people that disagree with them
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>>741280851Nintendo doesn't need rare and banjofags need to face reality and accept their scrimblo is dead and buried.
>>741280851why does Nintendo need the Sea of Thieves developers
>>741219978Buying studios willy nilly is how Xbox and Sony ended up in this mess. Nintendo should keep doing what it's doing.
>>741280936Yes they do, badly.>>741280981They were major to them during 1994-2002.
>>741281128All that talent from 1994-2002 is gone you fucking retard. Did you seriously think it was all the same people working on Sea of Thieves?
>>741280851>>741281128textbook midwitsuicide advised
>>7412811282002 was 24 years ago.
>>741281246I don't think he's smart enough to be a midwit.
>>741220414>Double Fine makes good gamesName them.
>>741227471Psychonauts came out 21 years ago. What have they done since other than Kinect Sesame Street and dogshit indie games?
>>741251024Again, not how it works, if Pokemon is so baby-easy that you can beat it by blindly spamming A, challenging yourself to a Nuzlocke run doesn't somehow make it well desgined, it's cool that you like the rest of the game so much you're willing to waste time finding ways to have fun with it that the designers failed to facilitate, but they still fucked up with actually designing the game
>>741283736Psychonauts 2
>>741243581double fine didnt make any screaming woman gamesretard
>>741219978No
>>741250183mecurysteam is going through the shits right now, they probably would have if the red flags werent so bad
>>741219978>Yes, hire a studio that makes movie slop and YEARS to develop a game
>>741224403the seething is so obvious you shouldn't have bothered posting hereyou should've just continued generating pronouns on your chatGPTroon
>>741283840And how well did that go for Microsoft? Double Fine has done jack shit since they were acquired 7 YEARS AGO. Psychonauts not only had funding from Kickstarter but had millions invested from Starbreeze before Xbox had to step in and save the game by buying DF.These people are a massive money pit. The only two games they’ve made since being bought are about a walking lighthouse and a party game featuring pottery.
>>741233967Astro Bot was so much more blatant than this but somehow that game got away with it... so farNintendo is too busy with Palworld, singularly
>>741243581you just reminded me of the Pluribus poster that the homescreen of my family's tv never gets rid of
>>741284148Cope lmao
jesus christ this guy is like the physical embodiment of the ick
>>741229923Nintendo is the savior by default the same way Valve isboth aren't marred by western wokism, which is more impressive on Steam's part for being a western company itself
>>74121997895% of all western studios should be shut down, actually
>>741233178>toddlerslop is good
>>741235474psychonauts 2 had much better game, enemy and level design than any mario game.
>>741284598Which studios are included in the 5%?
>>741285865all of the ones that aren't the modern equivalent of LJN and Phoenix Games while also not infected by leftism, obviously
>>741280851>Buy Rare now>When all the talented devs left over a quarter of a century ago before Microsoft even acquired them.Rare is a textbook case of the devs making the studio which is why Nintendo had no problem cutting them loose since they never achieved the greatness they had under Nintendo while under Microsoft. At this point, I doubt Nintendo would take Rare even if it was given to them for free.Plus more laughing at Microsoft because they thought they bought the rights to Donkey Kong.Also>10+ butthurt election touristsHa. The snoys strike again.
>>741284130I would chalk that up to Microsoft being incompetent as that has been the case with literally every studio they acquired
>>741286449>devs making the studiothe concept of Ship of Theseus needs to be much more widely spread around
>>741284480>Nintendo>not marred by western wokism
>>741284148>but somehow that game got away with it... so farthey did not, kaga got literally sued for it, and lost
>>741286795>NoA
>>741286795Only an issue on the westoid version, play in the original language.
>>741286854no, I meant Astro Bot did get away with it despite being much more overthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhToluDuofE
>>741286647>Ship of TeseusThat might be applicable to Retro depending on how big the rebound is with Prime 5 is. Which is a whole different topic since Prime 4 was marred with development hell issues and problems, but underneath the problems was still a decent game showing that devs can make something great if they don't get bogged down again.But for Rare? Even you have to admit they never achieved the the greatness they enjoyed in Nintendo while under microsoft.Also to futher make the point about it being about the devs. That's the mindset Nintendo takes since they'll poach individual talents rather than studios as a whole. I wish I saved the list of all the devs from Sega that Nintendo poached over the years after they went third party.
>>741286925this shit was the same problem with ACNH, thanks for reminding meit's always the US/western versions plagued with localization faggotry
>>741219978>reportedly>apparently>supposedly>rumored>internalso nobody actually knows anything and those that know something are keeping quiet? what is this fucking nothingburger of a rumor? shuttering a studio(cancelling the game) one week after announcing it? are you faggots really that fucking desperate for some news?
>>741286925>male>female>otherit's the same shit
>>741286925What's the third option for anon
>>741284480>Valve.>Saviour of anything.They are banning all-ages JP games now.>>741278557>>741278604
A company that only makes one decent game every twenty years would fit in at Nintendo pretty well
>>741287116>loli gamesnice bait
