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| pokoko said: What bothers me is that everything is fed into the "third-parties are trying to sink Nintendo" machine, even when there is a perfectly rational explanation at hand for a particular situation. Logic tells us that most businesses operate with profits as their top priority, not secret grudges that span generations and several different CEOs. For example, I've been hearing people mention that late ports of games already released on the PS3/360 but with a higher price tag on the Wii U is evidence of this. Really? Does that mean that these same companies where trying to oust Sony when the same thing happened to them? It's really starting to sound crazy. |
I agree mostly. What people fail to see is, that Nintendo has great 3rd-party-support - from japanese developers. Let's look at Atlus for instance: while Vita-fans are happy with Persona 4 Golden (and they should, it is together with Soul Sacrifice and Gravity Rush among the top-games of the platform), the 3DS gets SMT IV, Etrian Odyssey IV, SMT: Devil Survivors Overclocked, SMT: Soul Hackers, EO: Millenium Girl. If you look at this, you could get the impression Atlus tries to sink the Vita. Same with other japanese devs, I think Nintendo-fans cannot complain about support from Capcom, Sega or Namco.
Some gamers simply tend to ignore japanese devs (while others do the same with western devs). So IF you ignore japanese devs and IF you ignore handhelds, you might get the impression Nintendo gets bad 3rd-party support. But even that is not true. While western devs are not very aggressive for bringing out games for Nintendo-platforms, it isn't nothing as if they do nothing. Look at Ubisoft, WB or Activision, they do support even the struggling WiiU well. Only EA is missing (the effort of Ubisoft and Activision show that the simple ports turn profit even at the low sales, so EA does that for other reasons).
So, in reality, no conspiracy is at work here, Nintendo gets 3rd-party-support.
