Soundwave said:
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. |
If hardware power is the only thing that developers are looking for, then why are they making handheld games? Seeing as how the handhelds are inferior tech wise, developers woudn't know what to do seeing as how they can only develop for the highest end machines, that doesn't make any sense. So 3rd parties can develop for PS3 and 360 because the specs are higher than the Wii? But they also develop DS/3DS games even though the specs are lower.
I think that 3rd parties like to develop for MS and Sony because they have more pull with them to get what they want such as online passes, dlc and blocking used games. With Nintendo they seem less bullied by 3rd parties so they want to take their ball and go home.