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Soundwave on 21 August 2013
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Booyah said:
NightDragon83 said:
Booyah said:
3rd parties would probably find another excuse not to develop for it, that's what a lot of them have done since the N64 era.

Completely different.  The N64 was much more expensive to develop for simply because of the expensive cartridges Nintendo went with, and that was an era where most third parties could make decent money by sticking with just one platform and selling 100k or so copies of their games.  And this was true up until this past generation where if you don't sell close to a million or so copies of your game minimum it's considered a flop and your development team or studio gets dissolved.

Right, with the N64 it was the cartridges, so with the Gamecube they went with a disc format and was easier to develop for, then companies said it was cause the console sales were low, then Wii had amazing console sales, but 3rd parties say that their games don't sell well on Wii.

 

Like i said, its always something with 3rd parites and Nintendo. And budgets for making a Wii game was way less than making a game for the HD twins.


It's "always something" with third parties and Nintendo because Nintendo always makes a system with some kind of issue.

Carts vs. CDs was an obvious.

GameCube was more death by a hundred little mistakes that Nintendo made, but they all added up to a crippling failure.

Wii was a full hardware generation behind. Wii U is basically the same thing, though perhaps not as far back architecturally, but that gain is offset by the fact that the PS3/360 are still active platforms and have a combined userbase of 140 million vs. 3 million for the Wii U, which makes Wii U quite simply a lower priority.

Third parties don't give a crap about the logo on the hardware, they just want to sell their games. The problem is Nintendo plays the "we're a special snowflake, we're going to do something different just because, please accomodate us" card all the time and I think it just has alienated the third party community almost entirely after three hardware cycles of it.

It's like having a friend, who you were best friends with in elementary, but now that you've grown up and gotten a job, he lives on the other end of town, refuses to get a driver's license, and you realize you actually don't have a lot in common. It's not you dislike the guy, but are you going to drive out of your way 45-50 minutes in traffic to pick him up when you have two totally cool new friends who you actually have a lot more in common with, work with you, do a lot of same things you and will even come pick you up or cover the bar tab on some occassions?

That's how I think third parties see Nintendo. It's two friends who have grown in different directions.