And as much of a sony fan as i am i would rather a 3rd party company buy them out, games like street fighter and megaman should be expierienced by everyone and not limited to exclusives the little kid in me wants sega to do it, i dont see a non japanese company buying them out
If Nintendo is "bleeding money", then what the hell is Sega considering not too long ago they bought Index Holdings for $224 million in order to acquire Atlus? All this talk about Sega struggling financially and that they barely make enough to stay afloat, then they spend close to a quarter of a billion dollars to purchase a niche JRPG developer/publisher. The mindset that Nintendo is in some sort of financial rut and could not purchase some of Capcom is ridiculous. I'm not saying Nintendo will or should acquire Capcom or some of their assets, but they're certainly not held back by their bank account. The Wii U is losing Nintendo money right now, there's no denying that. So was the 3DS, and all it took was a few key releases along with a price drop and now they're back to printing money mode like they were with the DS. Sales of the Wii U increased over 600% in the UK since the release of Mario Kart 8. Think about how much higher it'll get worldwide once Smash Bros, Zelda, and Star Fox are released. I'm not saying Nintendo isn't losing money right now, I'm just saying Nintendo isn't doomed.
That was in a market where they had no competition. Notice how they said "increased 600%" instead of giving actual numbers, the usual trick for hiding shit sales. I'm not saying MK8 didn't sell copies, but a 600% increase over a tiny number isn't that impressive, plus it's probably just a short-term boost. A B-list franchise like Star Fox probably won't move the needle since even a new Mario game didn't. Zelda's popularity also seems to be on the decline considering A Link Between Worlds wasn't exactly a blockbuster. Mario Kart is, by far, Nintendo's biggest franchise at the moment and that's why it sold units. Also, I never said Nintendo was doomed, just that it has lost tons of money and that two-year-old article is hopelessly outdated.
Pretty sad to see, they created the greatest game in existence but frankly I haven't bought a Capcom game since 2009 with the release of SF4. With the lack of innovative new content and constant iterations I'm surprised they made it this far.
Good riddance. I'd see them burn to cinders, If anything. SF4 was the last good title pushed out by them since... I don't even know when. By this time they seemed to have crash landed every series that took off. Resident Evil & Megaman went down the drain. No new titles for niche series like Power Stone or Rival Schools. Massive pushing of DLC. Either I am just an old man loving Nes - Gamecube & seeing everything new as cheap due to rose tinted glasses, or gaming nowadays really is shittier. I am sure it's both, but I lean towards the latter.
Nintendo's Financial information, I'm not a good number cruncher so maybe someone could summarise it; http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/ From my understanding (and majority of discussions) of their bank situation, Nintendo can afford to mess up a few more generations as they've banked quite well from the past. I can't find the exact figures to be 100% on that though (unless I'm missing that from the link I posted...)
I think part of it is A) more games are coming out than ever before (all over, not just Crapcom), and B) you only remember the good games. You remember Super Mario World, but not garbage like Rapjam Volume 1 (or whatever it was called). 20 years down the line you'll remember SFIV, but not Ninjabread Man.
