The real reason why 3rd party games do not sell well on Nintendo hardware

[hunter_alien]

cyberninja45 said:

hunter_alien said:
No... the quality of Nintendo 1st party is subjective, so your argument falls flat.
The truth is that the established 3rd party fanbase is nowhere to be found on Nintendo consoles. Since the SNES they never had a stable 3rd party relationship, and that is the bigger truth. The quality of AAA 3rd party games is more than enough to rival and even surpass Nintendo. I think myself and the majority of gamers agree on this one

Quality maybe subjective to an extent. But are you honestly telling that most nintendo games are not highly rated?

Yes there are some very high quality 3rd party games, most of them just don't grace nintendo platforms.

Not at all. I am simply saying that 3rd party offerings can be of same quality.

Its actually funny. I mostly grew up with Nintendo franchises but went over to the PC/Playstation combo mostly for the quality 3rd party support, and rhe fact that by the end of the 90's Sony had a more than strong enough 1st party exclusive library that I believed that is enough to rival the N64 and later on the GC.

The truth is that 3rd party IPs became so dominant in modern times that Nintendo is loosing center stage with their IPs. New IP's from Ubi/Capcom/EA/ActiBliz are getting som much attention every day from the gaming media that Mario is starting to get sidelined, especially when you get a "New"SMB every year now.

The fact is that the biggest flaw of the OP's argument is its argument itslef. Not only 3rd party games are highly rated, they are starting to steal that creative/new feeling what Nintendo used to offer gamers. It will be nice if the 3DS gets a new Metroid, but Im willing to bet that more gamers are excited for Deep Down and Watchdogs.