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the reason is that one part of nintendo console owners just wants to play nintendo games and that has nothing to do with quality, they just like nintendo games (as much as other people like blizzard games) and the other part of nintendo console owners are kids or families who want to play together some mario party or so. with nintendo games i mean games which have the "nintendo style", few other games of other companies are similar and also successful on nintendo consoles.

on xbox or playstation, first party games and third party games are much more similar to each other, they can be as good or even better as nintendo games but they are different. someone who likes those games has such a console and someone who likes nintendo games has to own a nintendo console because other consoles only get very few games similar to nintendo games.

there are obviously also people who own a nintendo and another console but most people own only one console outside of gaming forums.



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UltimateUnknown said:
So NSMBU was the most revolutionary thing Nintendo has come up with for the Wii U that has never been done before on other platforms like the DS, Wii or 3DS. It is the epitome of quality that the REAL gamers play while COD BO2 is the same recycled junk that has already been done before and so no one buys it, even though BO2 on Wii U is the best version of the game compared to all other platforms.

Yup, that seems about right.

What does this have to do with my OP? In case you did not read it

"But what about the wiiU its selling terrible even nintendo big franchise like NSMBU cannot keep the sales momentum?

As I already said unlike what the internet may make you believe  most true gamers do not buy cash-ins and yes NSMBU is a cash-in by nintendo"



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Nah I'm pretty sure PS360 fans have better taste, higher standards and a much larger variety of games to choose from..

See anyone can play this game :)

Fact of the matter is..the very first sentence you started the OP off with is a lot of bs. This just reeks of desperate damage control for the poor sales



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fordy said:
Pristine20 said:
cyberninja45 said:

This is a no apologizes thread on why most 3rd party games do not sell well on nintendo platforms from a true gamer.

To put it simply most 3rd party games are just plain terribly made or just cash grabs from publishers. I will use Call of Duty as an example, why the hell would any real gamer buy the same game every year it just makes no sense, COD is total cash grab from activision ever since after MW. Most true gamers realize this,unfortunately not enough, and stay away from the franchise, I myself was a huge COD fan up until MW 2 then I realized "Ok this franchise has reached it limits for me".

But what does that have to do with nintendo gamers?

For the uninformed let me enlighten you, it is a well established fact that nintendo games are some of the highest rated and acclaimed games in the industry and they are some of the highest selling also. If you cannot figure it out by now the correlation between high rated and high selling isn't a mere coincidence. Unlike what you may have been led to believe from the internet most  true gamers in the real world seek out the best games for their money so naturally they seek nintendo games, and if you are accustomed to playing games made by nintendo you won't spend your money on Cash-ins or Terrible games its as simple as that.

But what about ps360 owners who buy alot of these games?

Simple they do not have or play  nintendo games so they don't know any better.

But what about the wiiU its selling terrible even nintendo big franchise like NSMBU cannot keep the sales momentum?

As I already said unlike what the internet may make you believe  most true gamers do not buy cash-ins and yes NSMBU is a cash-in by nintendo

Translation: I'm an elite gamer. I know real games while the rest of you suckers don't. If you don't like the kind of games I like, you suck and deserve to play your terrible games because you don't know what "real" gaming is as defined by me.

 

Is that it?

 


Why does it annoy other people that 3rd parties do not sell well on Nintendo systems anyways? Unless you're affiliated with the 3rd party, I'd say you're just looking for shit to fling.

On a side note, people who come from other platforms saying how Nintendo users should purchase 3rd party games is as obnoxious as an American going to India and saying "Why don't you eat hotdogs here?"


Dude, I don't care whether 3rd parties sell on Nintendo systems or not. What irks me is when people claim Nintendo games are holy grail and the rest of us are unevolved peasants for not liking them and preferring our graphics, QTE or whatever it is they chose to condemn on any given day.

yes, some of us like our graphics, our FPS games, our "movie" games and what-have-you. Guess I don't deserve to play games then lmao.



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M.U.G.E.N said:
Nah I'm pretty sure PS360 fans have better taste, higher standards and a much larger variety of games to choose from..

See anyone can play this game :)

Fact of the matter is..the very first sentence you started the OP off with is a lot of bs. This just reeks of desperate damage control for the poor sales


Why are you so concerned about 3rd party sales on Nintendo systems anyway? Is there something you're missing out from because of it?



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Pristine20 said:


Dude, I don't care whether 3rd parties sell on Nintendo systems or not. What irks me is when people claim Nintendo games are holy grail and the rest of us are unevolved peasants for not liking them and preferring our graphics, QTE or whatever it is they chose to condemn on any given day.

yes, some of us like our graphics, our FPS games, our "movie" games and what-have-you. Guess I don't deserve to play games then lmao.

It really depends on what one considers a game and what one considers an "interactive movie".



fordy said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Nah I'm pretty sure PS360 fans have better taste, higher standards and a much larger variety of games to choose from..

See anyone can play this game :)

Fact of the matter is..the very first sentence you started the OP off with is a lot of bs. This just reeks of desperate damage control for the poor sales


Why are you so concerned about 3rd party sales on Nintendo systems anyway? Is there something you're missing out from because of it?


What makes you think I'm 'concerned'? Because I posted in this thread? Wouldn't even have bothered if it wasn't for the rediculous statements made in the OP

Nintendo and WiiU owners should be concerened. I'm neither



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mrstickball said:
Very wrong.

Let's take the Wii for example - using Metacritic's top scores for 3rd party Wii games:

Rock Band 2 - 1.00 Million Units Sold
Xenoblade Chronicles - 0.83 Million Units Sold
Rayman Origins - 0.42 Million Units Sold
Resident Evil 4 Wii - 2.13 Million Units Sold
Okami - 0.52 Million Units Sold

Those are the top 5, 3rd party games on the Wii. Two were over 1 million units. That's absolutely horrendous for games that have a >90 Metacritic score.

You can defend it all you want, but even the fantastic Wii titles like Xenoblade have pitiful sales worldwide. Had Xenoblade been an HD affair, it would have likely sold 3-4 times as many copies, worldwide.

The Wii/WiiU caters towards a specific crowd. That specific crowd does not buy large amounts of non-Nintendo core titles. Comparatively, the 3DS/DS appeal to almost everyone, and 3rd party sales are generally better among top-tier titles.


I dont know much about rock band, but rayman origins and xenoblade came late into the wii's lifespan the console was already dying and the market for these types of games had already moved away from the wii.

Its a shame okami did not sell better though as it is a better zelda than most 3d zeldas's in recent times. But to be fair I think the wii version sold better than the ps2 version even though the ps2 had a much higher install base, so that says something right there.



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Poorly written awful article. The 360 and ps3 have many highly acclaimed games. 

PS3: Uncharted 88-96 on metacritic. killzone 2 and 3 84 and 92. God of war 3

360 has halo and gears of war. While I don't like them, everyone else seem to.

While we are looking at cash -ins let't look at Mario party 89 and the endless stream of mario kart.



M.U.G.E.N said:
fordy said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Nah I'm pretty sure PS360 fans have better taste, higher standards and a much larger variety of games to choose from..

See anyone can play this game :)

Fact of the matter is..the very first sentence you started the OP off with is a lot of bs. This just reeks of desperate damage control for the poor sales


Why are you so concerned about 3rd party sales on Nintendo systems anyway? Is there something you're missing out from because of it?


What makes you think I'm 'concerned'? Because I posted in this thread? Wouldn't even have bothered if it wasn't for the rediculous statements made in the OP

Nintendo and WiiU owners should be concerened. I'm neither


Thanks, thought police, on what Nintendo people should be concerned about. Where would we be without you?

 

It almost seems like a lot of others are jealous to the fact that Nintendo can't go away as easily as some other companies, despite the lack of support. The fact that Nintendo has survived multiple console gens in this state just shows it's not going to happen. Deal with it.