should start this with how Nintendo made a giant building to consolidate their game, hardware, and system teams.
So apparently it combines the handheld and console divisions into one building so both groups can work together better. Apparently, both were pretty much their own entities and that is why it always led to vastly different designs and thoughts when it came to consoles and handhelds. One of the things that I found interesting is that it can hold up to 1500 developers. And that in this process of consolidating their developers, they have buildings vacated.
With all these developers under one roof it should go a long way towards developing a good group identity and it should show in their games. Nintendo first party games should be coming out at a faster clip and with fewer issues. They created and added internal and external support studios that will help with first party games.
But what about the old buildings? I think they should fill a building with a port team. A Port to Wii U team. The purpose of the P2WU team would be to port 3rd party games Nintendo feels would be a great fit or would fill a missing gap in the Wii U library. Stuff like this used to happen all the time. A dev team has no idea how to develop for certain hardware, but they want their game on the system. They would outsource the job to a port team who knows the hardware. An example (an admittedly poor example) would be the PS3 port of Bayonetta.
The difference in this though is that the P2WU team would be intimately familiar with the Nintendo hardware and how to get the most out of it. That and Nintendo would be sensible enough to not select games that would blow out the hardware for their ports. I think the main purpose of the P2WU team would be to bring over ports from last generation, and some from this generation to the Wii U.
Nintendo can use this team to port all sorts of games to Wii U and it wouldn't cost the 3rd party publishers anything major. Nintendo would be doing the heavy lifting and the 3rd party publisher gets some credit on the side. Capcom, Bandai Namco, Konami and others would get their games on Wii U, with no effort outside of licensing the port to Nintendo to develop and publish. Wii U gets valuable 3rd party games filled with Nintendo quality, and gamers get more options than ever.
Do you guys think an idea like this would help?
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