Author Topic: THQ licenses unknown IP from Nintendo (Read 11653 times)

Kairon · « **on:** October 17, 2007, 08:01:27 AM »

Read it all here.

Hmm... what could it be? More Mario spinoffs? Or is Nintendo trying to farm out Star Fox to someone new because Namco screwed it up so bad?

ShyGuy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 17, 2007, 08:13:38 AM »

SpongeBob and Mario at the Winter Olympics.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #2 on:** October 17, 2007, 08:18:47 AM »

Please not Star Fox...The franchise really deserves to be developed in-house after 3 straight mediocre games... ;_;

I don't trust THQ with ANYTHING...

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #3 on:** October 17, 2007, 08:20:25 AM »

I'll bet Wario will be a secret character in all their wrestling games.

Kairon · « **Reply #4 on:** October 17, 2007, 08:25:03 AM »

Donkey Kong?

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #5 on:** October 17, 2007, 08:36:20 AM »

Umm, THQ? Uhh, er...hmm...

I know that Nintendo keeps very close watch on 3rd parties handling their franchises, but this seems a bit off.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #6 on:** October 17, 2007, 09:07:19 AM »

Oh yeah, THQ owns the Tetris label, right? Hopefully it's just Nintendo Tetris...

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #7 on:** October 17, 2007, 09:08:12 AM »

Punchout?

vudu · « **Reply #8 on:** October 17, 2007, 09:12:29 AM »

Kairon said it's an unknown IP from Nintendo. Everyone knows Mario and Punchout. It's obviously Radar Scope.

Kairon · « **Reply #9 on:** October 17, 2007, 09:16:38 AM »

uh...uh... maybe unspecified is a better word... yeah... /edits

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #10 on:** October 17, 2007, 09:24:32 AM »

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Originally posted by: vudu
Kairon said it's an unknown IP from Nintendo. Everyone knows Mario and Punchout. It's obviously Radar Scope.

You just caught yourself in a logic paradox there, Epimenides!

Maverick · « **Reply #11 on:** October 17, 2007, 09:32:59 AM »

Please god not Starfox! We really need a Nintendo developed Starfox title... it's been so long.

And yes I know Bill already said that, it just needs reiterating.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #12 on:** October 17, 2007, 09:40:24 AM »

We need as many people wishing it not to be Star Fox as we can!

Ian Sane · « **Reply #13 on:** October 17, 2007, 09:44:32 AM »

The site now says:

"UPDATE: A THQ representative has since stated that the filing is a standard Wii developer agreement, suggesting that there is no specific Nintendo character/franchise being licensed."

So looks like a false alarm. Though with Nintendo being so spin-off happy it is frighteningly believable.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #14 on:** October 17, 2007, 09:53:58 AM »

Maybe that part of the agreement allows them to use Miis in their games.

Upon rereading the article with a new perspective, the intellectual property in question could simply be Nintendo's code in the devkit.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #15 on:** October 17, 2007, 10:34:26 AM »

"Maybe that part of the agreement allows them to use Miis in their games."

That's not quite so offensive. Having third party games use the Miis would be a nice touch. I don't even care if the games sucked. I'm opposed to Nintendo characters being used in a shovelware. The Mii is not a real character anyway. It's supposed to be US so having ourselves in a crappy game doesn't matter. A whole bunch of them ask for my name anyway so Ian Sane is already embarassing himself in a sh!tty game anyway.

Darkheart · « **Reply #16 on:** October 17, 2007, 10:36:34 AM »

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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
SpongeBob and Mario at the Winter Olympics.

Hilarity at its best I lol'd hard

anubis6789 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 17, 2007, 12:31:43 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
Please not Star Fox...The franchise really deserves to be developed in-house after 3 straight mediocre games... ;_;

I don't trust THQ with ANYTHING...

Why does everyone hate Command? It may not be the best Starfox game but it sure as hell does not deserve to be lumped in with the likes of Assault and Adventure.

Do not give me that "its only considered good because the last two where so bad" crap, its good enough to stand on its own, and at the risk of negating my own argument I will say: at least in my opinion.

On topic: Thank God! For a minute I actually thought that Nintendo had gone insane, in a bad way, and might have actually allowed a company like THQ to use one of their properties, even if it could have been something obscure that no one cares about like Radar Scope or Sky Skipper.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #18 on:** October 17, 2007, 12:34:05 PM »

"Why does everyone hate Command? It may not be the best Starfox game but it sure as hell does not deserve to be lumped in with the likes of Assault and Adventure."

Forcing me to do everything with the touch screen really put a huge damper on the game...They could of at LEAST allowed me to do barrel rolls with a button, because trying to fly and barrel roll at the same time was bloody near-impossible and frustrating... =\

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 17, 2007, 01:08:53 PM »

I thought Command was a good game as well. The touch screen controls were pretty good and I had fun playing through the stories (even if they were melodramatic at times).

Luigi Dude · « **Reply #20 on:** October 17, 2007, 01:38:23 PM »

Well considering how the Star Fox series is almost dead, I'd imagine Nintendo themselves will make the next one to try and revive it. Because I'm sure Nintendo is not happy with how downhill the series has gone.

Star Fox - 2.99 million worlwide
Star Fox 64 - 4.03 million worldwide
Star Fox Adventure - 1.85 million worldwide
Star Fox Assault - Last time I saw anything it was around 500,000 maybe more worldwide
Star Fox Command - This one I have no real idea. I think it did 100,000 it's first month in America and then dropped and in Japan I think it was close to 100,000. No idea about Europe but considering the series was usually most popular in America and then Japan, I'm guessing Europe sales wont add much.

So as you can see the series has gone from a huge sales franchise with Star Fox 64 into a small niche with Command. In order for the series to become popular again something major needs to be done and I'm sure Nintendo knows now that they are the only ones that can do it.

Because if it gets farmed out to one more third party then we can consider the Star Fox series offically dead because it would say Nintendo doesn't even care about the series anymore.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #21 on:** October 17, 2007, 02:01:19 PM »

Well Miyamoto expressed his diapproval over the recent Star Fox games, so I'm hoping that means something...

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #22 on:** October 17, 2007, 02:07:20 PM »

Not enough Krystal.

son of lucas · « **Reply #23 on:** October 17, 2007, 02:42:10 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
Well Miyamoto expressed his diapproval over the recent Star Fox games, so I'm hoping that means something...

Wasn't Miyamoto the one who shoehorned Star Fox into Dinosaur Planet in the first place?

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #24 on:** October 17, 2007, 02:46:51 PM »

He made gaming and he will destroy it.

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