Should Nintendo sell the Wario franchise?

[CM30]

They don't seem to have been doing as much with it lately, so why not sell it to another company?

Maybe an indie development team who would ONLY have Wario games to focus on them? That way, we wouldn't see the series get shafted for a new Mario or Zelda title every time, and the franchise would be treated with a lot more respect (since it's the company's one lifeline to staying in business).

What do you think?

 

[Just a Wario Fan]

I don't think it will be a good idea, since Wario is a Nintendo character. It would be awkward if Mario stays by Nintendo and Wario not.
And how will they make a Mario Kart or Mario Party game without copyright issues?

 

[Glowsquid]

The logical reason would be "no" because that would make rereleasing all those mario sportgames a nightmare.

nintendo spd1 is the only studio I trust for warioware gaems.

 

[BooDestroyer]

You might as well be saying the same about Metroid and F-Zero.

And no, it wouldn't make sense to sell Wario off to another company. He's still part of the Mario series too.

 

[herrherr]

I'd rather wait aeons to play a Wario game made by an in-house Nintendo developer. (Despite it being ever so painful!)

 

[Yikes Spike]

How about a second party company that would focus only in Wario related, like Rare to Donkey Kong.

 

[Bubba]

How about a second party company that would focus only in Wario related, like Rare to Donkey Kong.

I got it. Artoon/Arzest instantly gets rights to Wario too!

 

[herrherr]

How about a second party company that would focus only in Wario related, like Rare to Donkey Kong.

It depends. Good-Feel falls under this category, yes? I wasn't especially fond of Shake It! to be honest.

 

[CM30]

I still want to see Retro Studios make a Wario Land game. But I can only imagine how annoyed the Nintendo fanbase would be to see them using their resources on a Wario title...

 

[warelander]

Retro Studios can't do anything anymore without someone being asshurt over it not being what they wanted, the initial backlash that Tropical Freeze has recieved was nothing short of embarassing.

 

[Glowsquid]

ignoring legal and financial realities for a sec', i'd totally want retro to work on acclaim's licenses above anything. since it was founded by former acclaim employees.

extreme-g and turok by retro

wouldn't it be perfect

 

[BooDestroyer]

The problem with Retro is that they're not big enough to work on more than one game at once.

 

[Yikes Spike]

It depends. Good-Feel falls under this category, yes? I wasn't especially fond of Shake It! to be honest.

They spent more feeling in Wario land Shake it! Than any other game they made.

 

[Glowsquid]

Yoshi's Wooly World has more feels than Kirby's Epic Yarn, but less than Shake It. I give it three feels.

 

[Melluh]

we should make a crotchkicker and buy it from nintys filthy money grubber hands
we can rebuild it
we have tECHNOLOGY

and we can ask the mother fandom for motivation