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Valve and Nintendo have no working relationship. There is an approximately 0% chance that Nintendo, as a game publisher, will ever publish on Steam. This is a p
by tadfisher 3y ago
Valve and Nintendo have no working relationship. There is an approximately 0% chance that Nintendo, as a game publisher, will ever publish on Steam. This is a pessimistic move by the legal department, nothing more.
- ThatPlayer 3y agoBut Valve does publish on Nintendo's eShop.
- thebigwinning 3y agoHow would their partners feel about how they treat others intellectual property?
- flangola7 3y agoNo IP is being infringed in this topic
- thebigwinning 3y agoWhether they are or not, it would be foolish to make any move that suggests they don't care about IP. That's how their partners make money on Steam.
- TylerE 3y agoNever say never. Look at Sega.
- cglong 3y agoEven Sony and Microsoft are now publishing their recent Greatest Hits on Steam!
- dustymcp 3y agoisnt that the sane option just keep the steam price higher than your own price and people would mostly prefer to buy directly to save money, then you get the exposure from steam but you can convert them to your platform.
- largepeepee 3y agoWell they are also discovering that many people would rather pay the 20-30% extra than deal with the hassle of a subpar platform. The cost to build/maintain a competent platform is also not cheap even for the big boys like EA.
- esrauch 3y agoI think there's some limit to that; Nintendo could sell the new Zelda for $250 on Steam and get some takers, but it won't make them more money just make them look greedy.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoI think Valve has a clause in the contract that says the price on other platforms should be as low as the price on steam at most. Otherwise everybody could just use Steam as advertising platform. Of course I have no idea how contracts for big companies work
- sk0g 3y agoSega do not produce games to drive console sales. Nintendo's games rarely, if ever, hit other platforms.
- asveikau 3y agoApart from this being false as mentioned by other replies, Nintendo is a large player in the space with a big legal department. It could be a good strategic move not to piss them off.
- wodenokoto 3y agoNone at all? Then how did portal end up on my switch?
- stuckkeys 3y agoFor starters. He prolly never heard of portal lol
- jahsome 3y agoWould you elaborate on "no working relationship?"
- kupopuffs 3y agoStrong opinions here
- mijoharas 3y agoI was wondering things along these lines. I don't see there being a 0% chance (though admittedly a low one) that they bundle some of their back catalogue with an emulator and release the titles on PC (like Sega on Android/iOS). If they think the value of those sales would exceed the value added to the switch of eg Mario kart 64 being exclusive, then it'd make sense.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoWhy back catalogue? Modern switch games on PC would appeal to a significant audience.
- mijoharas 3y agoTrue, but I think there is a much better argument in favour of gating the IP to promote switch hardware sales. (Again, from the perspective of Nintendo. It'd obviously be great if they released these things on different platforms from a user perspective)
- skeeter2020 3y agoNintendo only sells hardware because of exclusive titles. I think it's also unlikely that anyone on PC will pay $90 for a new title more than 3 months after release.
- mynameisvlad 3y agoNo, but who said it had to be full price? Sony has shown that people are willing to pay $50-60 for games that are a few years old but newly released on PC. See God of War, Horizon, Spider-Man, and I think there were a few more too.