Rumor: Nintendo planning on buying Sega!

[Guild McCommunist]

You said 15 years. Now you are making excuses.

Point is that it's barely even a franchise and as many bad business decisions Nintendo makes, they're not mentally challenged enough to buy Sega for a complete flop like Shenmue.

Also whether Shenmue is good is highly subjective. There's a ton of people who think it's garbage.

 

[silver_ryder]

Sure....!

 

[chartube12]

Could Sega have wanted THQ and asked Nintendo for a lone? Nintendo agreed if Sega became a Nintendo owned 2nd party? Nah. It be too crazy!

 

[Pleng]

Even if this happens I doubt we'll see Daytona, Sega Rally or NiGHTS on 3DS so I don't think I really care..

 

[raulpica]

Point is that it's barely even a franchise and as many bad business decisions Nintendo makes, they're not mentally challenged enough to buy Sega for a complete flop like Shenmue.

Also whether Shenmue is good is highly subjective. There's a ton of people who think it's garbage.

Hush Guild, you don't want to ruin yet another thread with derailment

 

[SpaceJump]

Point is that it's barely even a franchise and as many bad business decisions Nintendo makes, they're not mentally challenged enough to buy Sega for a complete flop like Shenmue.

Also whether any game is good is highly subjective. There's a ton of people who think it's garbage.

Fixed that for you

The only Sega franchise I mostly care about is Panzer Dragoon, and we all know how alive that is So I couldn't care less if N buys S.

 

[Cuelhu]

All I can think of now is whether they'd release Alex Kidd 3D and/or Alex Kidd U.

 

[Arras]

SEGA + Ninty should make a new F-Zero like GX. I think that one was partly (or completely?) developed by SEGA.

 

[Elrinth]

Basically, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. Sonic The Hedgehog 1,2,3. Anything else, crap!!!!!!
Wait a minute, isn't Phantasy Star made by SEGA themselves?
If so, then a new Phantasy Star CORE game would be really nice.
Wasn't Wonder Boy SEGA aswell? If so, then it'd be awesome with a new Monster Lair-ish Wonder Boy.

 

[Valwin]

i am sorry wtf is hip hop gamer thing ?

 

[Bryon15]

I was actually thinking that Nintendo should buy a decent games company recently.

Well, nintendo did scoop up monolith soft.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_Soft

SEGA + Ninty should make a new F-Zero like GX. I think that one was partly (or completely?) developed by SEGA.

I think completely.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero_GX

i am sorry wtf is hip hop gamer thing ?

They write for electronic gaming monthly.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Well, irregardless, you may think that Nintendo (if this happens which is highly unlikely) buys Sega they won't be diving into the "obscure" Sega franchises that people love nor will they be putting their own muscle (like their R&D teams which make Super Mario Galaxy and such) on them.

Really, this can only be for the worst. All you do is deprive a lot of gamers of Sega games (well, the few good ones they make) and Nintendo gets a bunch of franchises that are either bad, unprofitable, or both.

 

[Canonbeat234]

SEGA just needs to let go of that blue hedgehog. Keep everything but let go of Sonic, SEGA.

 

[J-Machine]

I'd rather not have nintendo making decisions on games from the Yakuza or house of the dead. It would be nice if they could inject money to try and pump out a new single player phantasy star or panzer dragoon or even shenmue if only to get the fans of that series to stop begging for a conclusion game to that series.

in all honesty though I'd rather them buy I.P's then buy companies at this point.

 

[Bryon15]

SEGA just needs to let go of that blue hedgehog. Keep everything but let go of Sonic, SEGA.

But then there would be no more sonic games. And the last two (colors, generations) were really good.

 

[chavosaur]

Am I the only one who suspects that if ninty buys sega, we are in for another Bayonetta fiasco?
What I mean by this is the sonic the hedgehog 4 episodes have been great games on mobile platforms, however, if Nintendo purchased Sega, the next episodes would most likely be released only on Nintendo platforms yes?

 

[notmeanymore]

I don't want this to happen so I can hold onto the small hope that another Sega console may be coming.

Also, as for all the Sonic hate, Sonic Rush was a good game that came out in the last 15 years, and I would think with Nintendo backing them, they can make a more than indecently awesome game.

Or hell, they could be buying Sega JUST to put their characters in the next Smash Bros.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

The thing with Sonic games is people go "Oh these last few games were good" but when it comes to platformers they're entirely second rate. Like I guess Colors was alright but it's completely crap next to a Super Mario Galaxy. Maybe Sonic 4 was alright but it was complete crap next to Rayman Origins. Like why have a platformer franchise that is basically only "good" and hasn't been "great" in like 20 years?

 

[Hells Malice]

Unfortunately Sega doesn't have a single worthwhile IP I can think of off the top of my head that hasn't been complete shit in the past 15 years.

Valkyria Chronicles.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Valkyria Chronicles.

I don't think Nintendo would change its predicament unfortunately. No VC3 makes us all disgruntled.