Midway and profitable aren't words that are readily associated with each other. Year after year the struggling publisher reports losses – last year's was $77.8 million – but Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter thinks the publisher's fortunes could be on the rise.
The article discusses a claim by an intellectual property (IP) expert that Nintendo likely does not hold patents strong enough to prevent the game developer Pocketpair from creating Palworld, a game that some believe resembles Pokémon. The expert suggests that Nintendo's legal challenges against Palworld could amount to nothing more than corporate bullying, as the patents Nintendo might be relying on are not robust enough to stand up to legal scrutiny. The situation could be seen as an example of a large corporation trying to exert undue influence over a smaller competitor.
Crazy how far they are willing to go over nothing rather than tell Game Freak to get their shit together and sort the quality of the mainline games out.
Personally I'd drop the two game bullshit, make a full on complete game, and take their time making the best game they can without relying on a silly battle gimmick they'll ditch after one game. Gimmicks out of battle is what they should be focusing on, beauty contests, berry making, secret bases, the underground, Seasons, events during day / night and post game content like travelling to a new location or something.
It's straight up bullying with mooney and using the government laws as a tool to do so. They should be fined.
Entering Q4 and with the impending release of the PS5 Pro and major AAA titles this holiday season, Dragon's Dogma 2 has a golden opportunity for DLC.
Where does the time go?
I disagree. Midway alread has all the solid franchises it need, the problem is that Midway happens to be so good at screwing them. First Spyhunter NTR, then Rampage and now Mortal Kombat (MK DS and Wii).
If they actually try to put $10 million NOT into licensing movies, directors and celebs or into ads but use it to actually make a great Mortal Kombat in vein of classic MK2 and 3 (arcade days...) game or any of those other franchises and make sure its a good game before shipping it, then they will have no problem.
MK2 was the best game they ever made and that is 2 decades old now but still gets good play time on my SNES which is still alive.
Anyway Midway milked that franchise dry with over exposure with the Hollywood movies and everything.
Everything is pretty lame like NFL blitz, a dozen arcade shooters Area 51 etc...more arcade basketball...arcade racers LA RUSH...MEH!
Unreal Tournament is the only killer app you have but that only a matter of time before Epic pulls the plug on your life support.
Good Luck hope you survive or get bought off by some bigger shark!