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ZhugeEx teasing future Platinum Games titles (multiplat, self developed IP)
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That's a weird thing for Nintendo to allow, or did PlatinumGames actually buy back the IP from them?
Kamiya has to be leading up at least one of their self-published IP, right? He's the biggest name they have and would garner a lot of attention for the title.
They won't. They're a better partner than Game Freak. 🙃
Honestly though, if Platinum had their way they'd have ported Rising to Wii U and Automata to Switch. It's like all the Nintendo fanboys at Capcom basically left and joined together.
I'm totally expecting that weird mobile Okami-like to resurface as a full Switch/PS4/Xbox/PC ARPG.
Looking at Octopath, they might be okay with a PC port. If they still have the partial ownership.
they had no ownership over octopath, just publishing rights in the west (and exclusivity for a year)
Yeah i know, but this is the most recent example i could think of.
This is some unprecedented stuff.
AFAIK the only other game that Nintendo co-owns that went multiplat was the multiplayer part of Devil's Third. Usually it's stuff that they publish in one region like Ninja Gaiden 3 and Octopath Traveller.
Wouldn't be the first time Nintendo sells back the rights to a game for multiplatform publishing though.
See Lego City Undercover.
See Lego City Undercover.
Platinum Games has taken a big step as a developer with this. If they're able to self publish successful original IPs, they'll have taken a rare step for an independent developer.
Nice! The more the merrier. You know the platforms for the other multiplatform titles? (As a Switch only should I care?)
Quick fact-sheet for the newcomers who might be about to experience The Wonderful 101 for the first time:
- The true masterpiece of the world's greatest living video game director
- The longest video game ever made. There's a level in the ice late in the game that is actually longer than the entire game that contains it
- Those vague memories you have of it being described as DMC meets Pikmin meets Punch-Out meets meets meets? Yes.
- "The Wonderful 101 will release on August 23rd" - Hideki Kamiya
- Buy Unite Spring and Unite Guts ASAP
- Do you eat shit?
- The true masterpiece of the world's greatest living video game director
- The longest video game ever made. There's a level in the ice late in the game that is actually longer than the entire game that contains it
- Those vague memories you have of it being described as DMC meets Pikmin meets Punch-Out meets meets meets? Yes.
- "The Wonderful 101 will release on August 23rd" - Hideki Kamiya
- Buy Unite Spring and Unite Guts ASAP
- Do you eat shit?
I don't think Nintendo owned infinite rights to publishing/exclusivity. It's far more likely it just expired. There was almost exactly 4 years between versions and Warner Brothers still published the game for Switch.
Nintendo don't own:
Lego
Telltale Games
Warner Brothers
Lego City is owned by lego
The trademark Lego City Undercover was owned by Telltale games publishing.
Nintendo was solely a publisher and distributor who had moneyhatted the game on time exclusivity.
Huh didn't know about their ownership there but it's iffy since they don't own LEGO.
This is more from the ground up IP they co-own with third party devs like Sin & Punishment.
Now this is true. Game is like 15-20 hours long and it basically stays at the level of "final level of metal slug 3" for the duration of the experience
They had people.actually work on it so it wasn't just a straight up publishing agreement but yeah, they didn't outright own the IP or anything.(for obvious reasons)
Took less than 3 years for Nintendo to say "fuck it, do whatever you want with this game, we're porting TMS instead".
edit:
Lmao here we go
How about waiting how multiplatform W101 will be first? Nintendo isn't completely against PC ports from games they have had a hand in some way.
i mean you can speculate all you want, but nintendo didn't want to publish w101 on switch, they are going to publish bayo 3 (confirmed exclusive) for switch, and they're paying for the game to be made. not hard to see the difference. unless you think nintendo is going to publish the game on other platforms?
it wouldn't even be up to platinum to publish bayo 3 (or 2) on PC or other platforms, that's a decision nintendo and sega have to make.
