City of Heroes - by Nintendo?

[detour]

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-03/can-open-game-development-save-nintendo?campaign_id=yhoo

An excerpt appears below:

While the sales slump can be blamed in part on smartphones and tablets chipping away at the $58 billion global market for traditional video games, it's also due to a dearth of must-play titles from the company that created Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and the Legend of Zelda. To change that, Nintendo is doing something once unimaginable for a Japanese company: crowdsourcing game development to a network of 1.8 million programmers, including part-time hobbyists, to boost the size of its library. The company has allied with Unity Technologies, a San Francisco-based maker of software used largely to adapt casual smartphone and tablet games to various platforms. "As digital business expands, there will be even more opportunities to do business with small, independent software developers," Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said in a presentation at the E3 show.

That's quite a reversal for a company that's been fanatical about policing its development licenses, partly by filing lawsuits against companies that sold games for Nintendo's consoles without approval.

I posted this in the "Save Paragon City" forum as well, but since the Google pitch was here, I wanted to get the idea out to as many places as possible.  Feel free to consolidate if you are a board moderator.

This could be a great dark horse win/win:  we get our game back, and Nintendo makes money off of a game that was profitable.  In addition, Nintendo may tap into heretofore unseen markets, cross-promoting their other games with this MMORPG. 

I figure the worst they can say is no, right? 

[Sleepy Wonder]

I would probably close/delete this one, since technically this forum is for TF:Hail Mary stuff, and duplicate threads kind of split up important discussions.

Someone had mentioned Nintendo before here somewhere a few months ago, and I think the response was "We have a secret list; we're going one by one."

[Omega Mark V]

I'd agree with Sleepy, keep this to the other forum for the mean time while we see what/how our next and current options go.

Though I'm wondering if Nintendo would be interested considering they have that "wonderful 101" crap that CoH would completely trounce as an ip IMO.