Impulsivity said:
Whats funny is TOSE made its name on Nintendo products. Its best known product is the Game and Watch series. They aren't some company with a heavy anti Nintendo bias by a long shot. Also they are not fully saying this for their own sake, they are not really a game developer like EA is a game developer. Rather they are a developer that people send ports and game requests to; which they make, often without credit.
In many ways TOSE is representative of the industry as a whole (outside Nintendo who obviously likes the way things are going). Nintendo systems have been the way they are now since the end of the SNES era. Noone ever makes significant money off of N64 and later Nintendo systems except Nintendo. If you look at the top 50 N64 and later games for Nintendo systems Nintendo games (and I'm including Rare games with Nintendo characters) account for over 80% of the best sellers. That is inverted for PS systems, which helps explain why everyone but Nintendo prefers Nintendo being the niche product instead of the dominant system. From the weird media Nintendo likes to use (gamecube disks, cartridges well past their prime) to the very different control schemes which are difficult to adapt to many types of games, Nintendo systems have to be the hardest to make a profit from if you're not Nintendo.
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Ever play pin the tail on the donkey? You just missed the donkey and pinned the tail on Ms. Johnson instead.
My point is that if you check profits for all the major publishers right now, it will show you for many their Nintendo projects account for a higher margin of profits than received on the HD consoles which for many has resulted in heavy losses.
