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TheBlackNaruto said:
SpokenTruth said:

Because the impression made by many posts in this thread suggest it.

Many state that Nintendo must have a 3rd parties to be succesful therefore the success of Wii was attributable in part by 3rd party support meaning many here would not have purchased a Wii without it.  But it also stems from the GC had 3rd party support and yet did not succeed and the lack of "raised hands" suggests that if they bought a GC it was not because of 3rd party support.  And finally, the Wii U launched with pretty solid 3rd party support and yet sold horribly...a condition similiar to GC.

Thus either people buy a Nintendo console for 3rd party titles which boosts sales success or they don't and the success or failure of a Nintendo console should reflect that....and they don't. 

The point being that the arugment laid out by many in this thread is wholly invalid.  And they played their hands to prove it.

Well to be fair you could ask that question almost of ANY console and get a pretty similar response. No one really buys a specific console just for 3rd party games....they look at the games exclusive to that system in conjunction with the 3rd party games imo. And since the days of the N64 when Nintendo put their foots in their mouths all Nintendo systems have been odd/almost non existent when it came to 3rd party support.

I think the success of the Wii had more to do with the motion controls being new and fresh. 3rd party games really didn't have anything to do with it. I think without that new fresh feel it brought the Wii would have been in the same current boat that the Wii U is in. Which bothers me because Nintendo has great games that are 1st party arguably the best in the business. And those are the games that sell Nintendo systems to Nintendo gamers but not to many others.....the issue here being though that in the home console market since the days of the N64 outside of the Wii they have really not been sucessful at all. The question then becomes why.....they have such amazing 1st party games so why are they not doing better? And I think that is why many here bring up the 3rd party games because it seems to be the thing that stands out the most.

I mean if in order for them to be successful requires them to come up with the next seemingly new idea or gimmick(as some feel the motion controls with the Wii were even though I personally enjoyed them) then something is wrong. Again I am at a wait and see stand point when it comes to the Switch because I have high hopes for it. But I want to see how it sells when the smoke clears. because it is currently in the same boat as the Wii with having something seemingly fresh. So will that impact the sales as it did the Wii? And how will that pan out with 3rd party games and 3rd party game sells? There are still a lot of questions for me right now and I can see the reasonings from both sides regarding 3rd party games on the Switch.

maybe the reality is the 1st party isnt as good to alot of people as people here seem to think. At least not enough that people are willing to spend more than 300 for a system just to play them. Its been pretty evident since N64 when that system damn near had to rely on just 3rd party.