Would you prefer that Nintendo or Sony PlayStation obtain the rights to Halo?

Thread: Would you prefer that Nintendo or Sony PlayStation obtain the rights to Halo?

Who would take better care of the Halo IP?

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I actually think Nintendo wouldn't care at all for Halo.

It's an FPS. Japan doesn't care for the genre. Metroid Prime 4 exists, but not without a significant break after MP3.

It's fairly similar to how Nintendo treats DKC. They will publish the games periodically and will have a western studio handle it.

I just don't believe they really care.
 
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Optimus said:
I actually think Nintendo wouldn't care at all for Halo.

It's an FPS. Japan doesn't care for the genre. Metroid Prime 4 exists, but not without a significant break after MP3.

It's fairly similar to how Nintendo treats DKC. They will publish the games periodically and will have a western studio handle it.

I just don't believe they really care.
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Mario and Zelda are Nintendo's flagship franchises though and I don't think MS or Sony have anything on that level?

Nintendo might use DK in Mario Kart or some other Mario or crossover game (Party, Golf, Tennis etc) so it makes sense that DK content is not priority.

Same for Pikmin, Metroid, Kirby.

Even less for FZero, StarFox etc.

A good thing you can say about Nintendo is that if you are a fan I bet they have a franchise that you'll love and that franchise will have a good fanbase even if it's not on the Mario/Zelda level.

For MS, Halo is their flagship franchise. Possibly Gears of War too.

Sony has God of War?

If Halo goes to Sony or Nintendo then it goes in as one of their lower tier franchises and probably gets a huge makeover in terms of genre, character or world building in the process.
 
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Yes @Franky Family , Really. 😐

Nintendo's priorities orbit around their own creations. There's no chance they would buy the Halo franchise, and if they somehow ended up with it they would relegate it to retro content treatment. They'd hire out for someone to port the collection, and it might get remasters. There's a chance they'd hand it to a third party to make a new entry once every 10 years or so. It's not much different than Donkey Kong Country, which they never really even liked.

That's just being honest. They liked the technology that Rare came up with. It literally breathed new life into a fading 16-bit console that had fresh competition in the 32-bit Playstation. They weren't impressed with anything else about Donkey Kong Country, though. They've got some rather infamous quotes about the west's love of DKC. Even though they were publishing the games they saw them as competition to their first party offerings. lol

But anyway, they literally don't care for FPS games. They don't make them. Metroid Prime was a thing, and they don't bury it like they sort of do some other franchises probably because they realize it checks a box they have no desire to check themselves. There's enough interest there for an MP4. It won't sell great, but it's great fanfare.

If somehow Nintendo owned Halo, I think they would shop for someone in the west to make those games. They wouldn't ignore the value of the IP because it will obviously print some money. I just think they would not care about it much.
 
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Optimus said:
Yes @Franky Family , Really. 😐

Nintendo's priorities orbit around their own creations. There's no chance they would buy the Halo franchise, and if they somehow ended up with it they would relegate it to retro content treatment. They'd hire out for someone to port the collection, and it might get remasters. There's a chance they'd hand it to a third party to make a new entry once every 10 years or so. It's not much different than Donkey Kong Country, which they never really even liked.

That's just being honest. They liked the technology that Rare came up with. It literally breathed new life into a fading 16-bit console that had fresh competition in the 32-bit Playstation. They weren't impressed with anything else about Donkey Kong Country, though. They've got some rather infamous quotes about the west's love of DKC. Even though they were publishing the games they saw them as competition to their first party offerings. lol

But anyway, they literally don't care for FPS games. They don't make them. Metroid Prime was a thing, and they don't bury it like they sort of do some other franchises probably because they realize it checks a box they have no desire to check themselves. There's enough interest there for an MP4. It won't sell great, but it's great fanfare.

If somehow Nintendo owned Halo, I think they would shop for someone in the west to make those games. They wouldn't ignore the value of the IP because it will obviously print some money. I just think they would not care about it much.
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Bro, go drink some mallard milk. We're talking about a franchise that sells 20 million easy even when you have the likes of Craig plaguing your image for all of eternity. If Halo were up for sale, Nintendo would purchase it in a heartbeat and double the sales with ease. It's not even the hard of a game to make. You just flood some earthy semi-space looking environments with five to seven different enemy types, throw a few warthogs in there, a horny hologram, some space power struggle nonsense and call it a plot and you have your campaign. The multiplayer is the challenging part. But Nintendo is known for their ability to create lasting multiplayer experiences that people love to play. If I can get on the phone with Phil today, I'll begin the talks
 
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Nintendo doesn't need it, and Sony doesn't want it.

Also Nintendo is just as bad as any huge corporation. They just happen to have a very family friendly image for basically perpetuity with their IP's.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was one of the most ruthless men in the entire industry. Nintendo's business practises back then reflected that well. It wasn't until Sega of America managed to fight back for a time, and later Sony mopping the floor with them, that they would even acknowledge their competitors. They had monopolized the market, essentially. Not entirely legally, either.
 
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ExpandKong said:
I've always wanted a halo game that forces master Chief to slow walk for two or three minutes at a time so his quirky female sidekick can talk about her past or maybe lecture him about something so Sony please yum
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To be fair it's not just Sony doing that shit.

Jedi Survivor is almost unbelievable with some of the shit it pulls. Here comes the most pivotal and best boss fight in the game, wouldn't you prefer to play as the strong black female for this section instead of the main protagonist?

At least with Nintendo you can rely on them to mostly focus on the gameplay.

I think, if Sony or Nintendo are the only options, then the real question is would you like a Halo game that focuses on beautiful graphics and flashy cutscenes or would you like a Halo game that focuses on the gameplay and level design?
 
Bump to an old thread, but to be honest, I'd rather want Nintendo to obtain IP's like Crash, Spyro & Bubsy before Halo.

At least those characters (alongside others like Sonic, Mega Man & Banjo & Kazooie) would fit more with Nintendo & their own cast of characters than Master Chief would.
 
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The only correct choice is to hand it over to Nintendo. Nintendo should make a Halo game and brutally, savagely kill off Master Chief and replace him with a better character
 
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