LucasArts President Jim Ward on Nintendo's third-party relationships

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rubido said:
Nintendo showed the remote on TGS2005 and nobody believed in them. They had megaphones and LucasArts did not listen because they didn't want to. Who listened? Sony surely did and showed some concern already at E3-2006 with the sixaxis.

Then came E3-2006 and LucasArts still did not listen. It took the system to launch and the sales for it to actually listen.

Nintendo has never been the most open company about their business. But most third-party developers just didn't want to listen and they were at their own fault for not having any games on the wii. They should have at least have had a small team working on a Wii game just in case it would come out as it did. Just the possibility of this happening should be enough for them to pay some attention.

 Yeah, agreed. Though Nintendo is certainly to somewhat blame for third party relationships (not buying them out with money?), it is also the third party's own fault for not acknowledging the Wii. 

 Companies like Ubisoft believed in the Wii from the start and made money. Companies who didn't make games, didn't make money. LucasArts is just very sour, because they couldn't make money.