Under major pressure to be more competitive with Sony and Microsoft, it will now cost less for publishers to get games licensed from Nintendo.
Everyone has always known that Nintendo has always charged game publishing companies just a little bit more to allow them to put games on the GameCube. This was no problem when Nintendo was dominating the scene, but now that Sony and Microsoft are courting pulishers with cheaper royalty fees, Nintendo has had a tougher time as of late.
Perhaps not for long, though, as the news agency Reuters is reporting that Nintendo is lowering their royalty fees in a move to get more games on the GameCube. Here are some snips from the article:
"Before our royalty rate was a little more aggressive so to the third party publisher it was a little less attractive to make games for GameCube," George Harrison, senior vice president of marketing for Nintendo of America, told Reuters.
"The biggest games of the year last year were games like GTA and they came from an independent publisher," Harrison said. "We need to make sure that we have good relationships with all the independent publishers, because you never know where the next big hit game is going to come from."
"Games from Namco Ltd. and Sega Corp. and Capcom Co. Ltd.... we think are going to be just as important in helping to sell our hardware system this year as much as our own games," he said. "We are going to sell a lot of GameCube and its our job to convince them that we are."
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