Developers don't make the decisions, the executives do. If he doesn't have to have much business sense, then he also shouldn't be speaking for EXECUTIVE business decisions. How is this, therefore, a "trustworthy source"?

I'm calling BS on this. It lacks common sense and defies any kind of business logic.

I couldn't agree more, and that's why I said that Nintendo is fucking up big times.

Well, as you don't name the company your source work for, I assume he don't work for EA. That means, your source in a 3rd-party-dev that is probably strongly connected to Sony (based on all the info about Sony) has heard that some EA-devs have found out about the gimped dev-kits by decompiling (or getting access to source) some 1st-party-game. So even your source knows this stuff not from own experience but only as something he heard from others. Makes this info more unstable. Maybe you can be more specific: which 1st-party-game was it, that used more RAM than the dev-kits for 3rd-party offered? So far released are Nintendoland, NSMBU and Sing Party (if I'm right). Coming games are Game&Wario, WiiFitU, Pikmin 3 and more in the future Mario Kart and 3D Mario. We expect also a Zelda WW HD remake this year. Smash Bros and new zelda probably are not coming this year. So the game from this year that might be make use of the extra RAM is Pikmin - more for the status on the creatures (not only the pikmin, also the enemies) than for graphic. Everything else this year should be not pushing the usage of RAM - although every dev is happy about more of it. But it makes no sense to keep RAM from third-parties, if you use it only in games, that would work with less. So Pikmin is my guess could be the only game that was using this. Only one game have an edge over competition seems like a poor result for scaring away 3rd-party. Zelda and SSB might have use for that extra RAM, but they are at least a year away.

Dont even know why you bothered with him, anyone with common sense knows that danm near all games this gen were made with 360 in mind and then ported over to PS3, doesnt matter how difficult it was to make games for PS3 it still didnt require having to remake the game from the ground up like it would have for Wii, so that was always a silly argument.  Why the hell are people even still using that? its 2013, devs learned awhile ago how to work with PS3

Nintendo is fucking up because your agument is illogical? No, they've been doing so long before that.

Let me give you an example of this. I'm an executive, and I call for a game to be developed for the Wii. Now, as an executive, how do you think I'd react if my developers came back and said "We refuse to develop for the Wii because we're not entitled to the same memory allocation as Nintendo"? Keep in mind that the executive doesn't give two shits about technicalities, they're in charge of financial and overall business decisions.

A working example of this was Square moving from Nintendo exlcusitivity. It wasn't done on a TECHNICAL sense. It was done on a FINANCIAL sense. In fact, look up some youtube videos on the history of Squaresoft, and the workers at the time explained how executives came in one day and just told the team "We're going with PlayStation now". It wasn't the devs making this decision, they just did what they were told. A lot of devs were excited, and a lot of devs were disappointed by the decision, but they still had to follow executive orders.

Battle.net maybe? With blizzard supporting it not impossible I guess and you also said they kind of mentioned it already. Oh, does this mean WoW on PS4?

I think Square abandoned Nintendo because of the lack of a cd-rom. They just thought it was the future, turns out they were right. A mistake Nintendo still haven't recovered from.

*sigh*

I know what this Megaton will be. Its actually a bunch of titles from Rare that Microsoft made and Nintendo had on the N64 at some point. Rare will join Sony and the announcement will be made at this years E3 conference. Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie will all be apart of the Sony family from that point forward.

This big service that he is so called not talking about is the cross game voice chat that Microsoft currently has, but there is more. You will also be able to play online games competitively on the PS4 and PC.

You see DaaneSandin, was that so much to ask. That's all you had to say.

The End.

Derp.

I somewhat agree on those two paragraphs. If I was Nintendo, I would have also given the Wii U 4GB of memory. Though, its only half of the PS4 memory, that would have been a slightly better outcome. Since, Nintendo is all right with taking a loss on hardware nowadays, they could've easily priced the console  cheaper and taken a bigger loss. Third party support in my opion is a lost cause for Nintendo. Unless you mean Japan, Nintendo doesn't have the same influence as Sony or Microsoft.

The thing is if this is it, Why would Nintendo fans care that much since they haven't had these franchises since the N64 era. If anything, they may actually be happier with this as many Nintendo SNES game franchises have already shifted to Playstation. All this will mean is that more of their favourite franchises will end up on playsation. Thefore there will be no need for these peopel to own 3 consoles but 2 now. It is a win win situation.

At the same time WHY would Micrososft fans care if Rare hasn't really produced many of these games whilst working for Microsoft.