27th January 2005, 5:37 PM
Indeed, it seems the review sites anyway seem to like the games, and I may just try them out if I see them, but I really want to know what the thought process was behind Nintendo doing this. If Nintendo really did sit down with the developers, see a quality game being made, and then offered the mascots to them, then I will take back what I said. In that case Nintendo is maintaining their integrity over this, and their name won't be sullied in the least by GOOD games with their characters.
If, however, Nintendo's goal was simply to keep EA making games for the Gamecube and did this entirely to ensure people kept buying GCN versions of EA's games, then I must say Nintendo made a bad move. Now, don't get me wrong, Nintendo getting involed with 3rd parties is great in and of itself, but if they only care about keeping the 3rd parties and gave their liscense over without checking for quality in the games they would be put in, then they hurt themselves. Let's say these games end up terrible, or if not that, just average. Nintendo's characters will only sell those games so much and EA will again see their sales slipping despite the franchise additions. Then what? Nintendo ends up worse off than before, that's what.
So this could be very good IF Nintendo works with EA to make sure all the games with Nintendo's characters are good, and they should really shoot for the games to be AAA actually. This could be bad if the games are bad.
Well, that's the way I see it, but then again I've never taken a marketting class in my life... It's possible there's something I'm missing about this... And again, I don't know the details behind Nintendo making this deal anyway.
If, however, Nintendo's goal was simply to keep EA making games for the Gamecube and did this entirely to ensure people kept buying GCN versions of EA's games, then I must say Nintendo made a bad move. Now, don't get me wrong, Nintendo getting involed with 3rd parties is great in and of itself, but if they only care about keeping the 3rd parties and gave their liscense over without checking for quality in the games they would be put in, then they hurt themselves. Let's say these games end up terrible, or if not that, just average. Nintendo's characters will only sell those games so much and EA will again see their sales slipping despite the franchise additions. Then what? Nintendo ends up worse off than before, that's what.
So this could be very good IF Nintendo works with EA to make sure all the games with Nintendo's characters are good, and they should really shoot for the games to be AAA actually. This could be bad if the games are bad.
Well, that's the way I see it, but then again I've never taken a marketting class in my life... It's possible there's something I'm missing about this... And again, I don't know the details behind Nintendo making this deal anyway.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)