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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Why are some Nintendo fans so opposed to going third party?

Kaizar on 18 December 2013
generic-user-1 said:
we need nintendo, we need a realy different console or the industrie will crash soon. xboxone and s4 are the same. the ps4 is just a bit more powerfull. both sides dont wanna risk anything, sony cant because they are allmost broke and MS cant because they dont know how and dont want to.


I concur.



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DevilRising on 19 December 2013
Jon-Erich said:
Look at Sega and you'll have your answer.

Nintendo is like Apple. Their software and hardware are nicely integrated and because of that, software development becomes more efficient because they know they're building a game for a specific piece of hardware. Also, they can fully take advantage of the hardware because they aren't having to choose the lowest common denominator in order to take advantage of multiple machines. Using Sega as an example, look what happened to them when they had to go from focusing on one piece of hardware to multiple pieces of hardware that were radically different from one another. Their games suffered because of it. The same thing would happen to Nintendo.

Unlike Apple however where software is made to take advantage of the hardware, the opposite is true for Nintendo. The hardware is designed around the kind of games they wanted to make. The Nintendo 64 controller for example was made to play Super Mario 64. Aside linking hardware and software, there's also a cultural aspect of hardware design. It's part of Nintendo's company culture to build hardware for their games. To take that away would radically alter the company and not in a good way. Again, look at Sega. They were by nature an arcade company. Building their own hardware was their business. It was their culture. Yuji Naka even once said that he was less excited about game development at Sega because it wasn't on their hardware, even though he was also a huge fan of the GameCube.

Sony and Microsoft are different. Their game systems appeal mainly to third parties, companies who always make one game for multiple game systems. They build hardware, treat games as the main feature out of many features, then say "put some games on this thing". They don't really come up with game concepts and then say "let's build hardware that can support this". That's what makes Nintendo unique and it's why the industry still needs them.

 

 

Some very good points.

 

But the better answer is, just look at Sega.

Before they went third party, they were a company that routinely put out good-to-great software, varied, rich, plentiful. Now, they are sparse, the quality of their games has continually gone downhill, many of their old franchises or the types of rare one-off games you would see, don't happen. All they do is make crappy Sonic games and publish other people's shit now adays. Why would ANYONE want to see that happen to Nintendo?

Besides, it's about more than that. If there were any justice in the world, Microsoft never would have gotten into the arms race, and Sega would still be it's own console company. As much as I like Nintendo and Sega's friendliness nowadays, and as cool as it is seeing Sega games on NIntendo consoles, it should by all rights still be Nintendo vs. Sega. And while I like the Playstation brand, and own a PS2 and PS3, honestly, I think it would be cool as shit if it were still Nintendo vs. Sega vs. Atari. Why? Because all three companies were (for the most part) GAME companies only. They weren't big mega-corporations that happened to have video game divisions, which is what Sony and Microsoft are. NEITHER company makes their money from their game consoles. Not even close.

To me, even though I've always been a Nintendo fan, Sega and Atari have a special place in my heart as well, as old school console makers. They made consoles when it was all about making video games. Not about "interactive entertainment", and making multi-media machines that are the "hub of the living room". Nope...they just made machines that play games. Which is what NIntendo is STILL all about, and I praise them for that. Nintendo is the last of the old guard. They were always the greatest of the three anyway ( to me at least), they survived while the others didn't for a reason. But if Nintendo falls....and all we have left is Sony and MS? Yeah..........that is a bleak fucking future for gaming that I don't want to ever see.