Topic: Reggie dropping a bomb at VGX Awards, what could it be?

[NWR_insanolord]

They might both be RPGs, but there's a pretty big difference between Skyrim and X. If this were ten years ago then maybe, but JRPGs are a niche genre now.

[Enner]

If X is anything like Xenoblade, I think it can hang with the likes of Skyrim. Xenoblade is far away from what many consider a typical JRPG. Xenoblade shares more similarities with games such as World of Warcraft and X appears to follow in Xenoblade's footsteps.

[Adrock]

X still looks like a JRPG with the anime character designs and mecha. The Spike TV audience won't know the difference especially since maybe like two people in the audience will have played it.

[NWR_insanolord]

I'm sure it's different but we're talking about at most a two minute trailer. They can't show enough to make that case.

[Luigi Dude]

X looks like it's trying to appeal even more to the West then Xenoblade did.  The setting so far and character designs have a much darker and realistic look to them that's more Western looking then Xenoblade's did.  There's also the fact in the original Nintendo Direct trailer it shows characters fighting with several different types of guns including a machine gun of some kind.

An open world game with machine guns, that sounds like something the Spike audience would be interested in right there.  Showing a trailer for it on Spike is bound to get some of the audience attention which even if it isn't a lot, is still better then not even trying at all.

[shingi_70]

X can be that game but I still doubt JRPGs coming back strong until we see a game that blends JRPG and WRPG conventions.


Plus who would have thought that Skyrim would have been as big of a mainstream hit as it was. 

[NWR_insanolord]

Even if it would appeal to the audience, it wouldn't do so as much as Bayonetta 2 or Smash Bros. Those are known commodities, more familiar to the kind of people who are watching.

[Shaymin]

how about the bomb is....Nintendo buys Sega.

That would be a really roundabout way of buying Atlus... but I'd allow it.

[NWR_insanolord]

They would just be trying to cash in on the sales monster that will be Shenmue 3.

[Spak-Spang]

If Nintendo had the balls to buy Sega and get all of Sega's wonderful IPs and some development studios and resources I would be extremely happy. 

But it will never happen.  If it did happen, Nintendo would basically own classic gaming nostalgia for the rest of infinity.  and I would be OK with that. 

[NWR_insanolord]

I think if Nintendo were going to buy Sega it would have happened by now. They've expressed reluctance to buy any studios lately, so I can't imagine one with as much baggage as Sega  would be desirable to them.

[Kytim89]

I am surprised that Nintendo passed on buying Atlus. Although considering the money that has eluded Nintendo's grasp in the last few years would put their investors in a position where buying new companies would be difficult to explain. Although Nintendo should have bought Vigil Games, but I guess they figure that it is cheaper to have autonomous companies work for them in a similar manner to Monster and  Next Level Games.

[NWR_insanolord]

Nintendo's profits have been down the last few years, but they have a ridiculous amount of money in the bank. They would have no trouble buying pretty much any Japanese developer, and most Western ones.

[Kytim89]

Nintendo's profits have been down the last few years, but they have a ridiculous amount of money in the bank. They would have no trouble buying pretty much any Japanese developer, and most Western ones.

I am not sure what Nintendo has in the works behind the scenes for the Wii U, but every first and second party company they deal with needs to have a Wii U game ready throughout next year.

[NWR_insanolord]

That's really not a good idea, because that would mean nothing in 2015. They need good support, but they need to be ready for the future.

[Adrock]

I am surprised that Nintendo passed on buying Atlus.

Of course you are. Nintendo didn't buy Atlus because seriously, why would they buy Atlus? For their mostly niche IPs? Nintendo would snag Persona, a mostly Playstation centric series, but is it worth $140 million to stick it to Sony? There are a number of other companies that Nintendo could have gone after over the years which would have yielded much stronger IPs than Atlus (now Sega) has and they just didn't. Nintendo typically doesn't acquire companies. If anything, I would have been surprised if they had bought Atlus because it would have been out of the ordinary for them.

[NWR_insanolord]

I don't think buying Atlus would have been too bad of an idea, but I really doubt, despite all the fans wanting it, that Nintendo ever even really considered it.

[NWR_insanolord]

Going back to the idea of Nintendo buying Sega, I'd argue it makes no sense. As crazy as it would have seemed 20 years ago, Nintendo and Sega are pretty much the best of friends. I don't think there's another third party publisher that Nintendo's closer with. Sega's already giving a lot of support to Nintendo, and with stuff like Mario & Sonic at the Olympics they've shown their willing to share IPs. Your dream Nintendo/Sega crossover, a Monolith-developed Skies of Arcadia or Shenmue 3 on Wii U or whatever, would still be perfectly possible without Nintendo spending a ton of money to buy them. The funny thing is Atlus exclusivity would probably the biggest benefit to doing it.

[Adrock]

If Nintendo bought Atlus, wouldn't we all be worried that Nintendo of America wouldn't bring over any of Atlus' games?

In hindsight, you can make the argument Nintendo buying Sega wouldn't make sense since Sega is offering a lot of support today. Then again, you can also make the argument that Nintendo would have all of Sega's IPs geared toward older audiences which Sega hasn't released on Nintendo hardware as a third party. However, it should be noted that Sega may not have released those titles anyway if they were owned by Nintendo.

[shingi_70]

I'm almost certain that if Nintendo had bid for Atlus Sony would have went out of their way to outbid them and gain control of the studio. I feel the reason neither bid on Atlus was because we had only heard of third parties like Gung Ho and Sega in the bidding process.


Sega isn't as bad off as people like to say its just their output isn't as console or retail centric as it was once upon of time. The company is really focused on a few markets being handhelds, PC, Digital content, and a few big retail releases a year like Sonic and Yakuza. I'm not even sure what Nintendo would know what to do with the PC branch of sega .


More on topic the game confrimed for VGX thus far are


The Witcher 3
Titanfall
Quantum Break


I'm just going to go with a new Zelda reveal.

[NWR_insanolord]

There's also the fact that Sega's fairly prolific as a publisher of games made by other developers, and if Nintendo bought them those would most likely go away. Nintendo doesn't get that many if those anyway, but there's likely more chance of getting them from Sega than from anybody else.

[the asylum]

Nintendo's not buying anyone, guys, not with the kind of money they're bleeding at present.

Now if they REALLY wanted to make waves, they'd blow the lid off of their (possible) new IP. I don't see that happening at VGX though, or anytime soon for that matter

[Kytim89]

The only reason I wanted Nintendo to buy SEGA is secure their IPs to Nintendo consoles. The Virtual Console is a good service, and the backbone of the service besides Nintendo is SEGA. To me the Virtual Console wou7ld not be the same if Genesis titles were no longer available to be purchased from the store.

[NWR_insanolord]

Sega supported the Wii VC better than Nintendo did.

[Khushrenada]

Ha ha ha. Funny but kind of true. As much as people complain about Nintendo trying to sell us the same old games over and over, I think Sega has edged them out on that regard since they can appear on any device and aren't afraid to put their stuff all over 'em.